[Yulcat-l] FW: [OCLC-CAT] MARC Formats Interest Group at ALA 2012 - Pillow, Riemer, and Heuvelmann slides now available

[Arakawa, Steven]

The MARC Formats IG at ALA Anaheim had 3 presentations, 2 of them related to authority control. The one by Riemer has good notes and (among other things) complements the discussion on undifferentiated names that took place Sunday at the PCC Participants meeting. The presentation by Heuvelmann is on German libraries' transitioning to a more international cataloging environment sparked by FRAD & RDA; unfortunately it is a PDF of the slides without notes, so it is probably hard to follow or reconstruct. I did like the German solution to the nonfiling indicator problem. The Pillow presentation also has no notes and is, well, Zen-like.

Steven Arakawa 
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation
Catalog & Metadata Services, SML, Yale University
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240  
(203)432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu


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Subject: [OCLC-CAT] MARC Formats Interest Group at ALA 2012 - Pillow, Riemer, and Heuvelmann slides now available

The slides for the presentations given by Robert Pillow, John Riemer, and Reinhold Heuvelmann at the 2012 MARC Formats Interest Group discussion meeting in Anaheim are now available on ALA Connect.

http://connect.ala.org/node/178213#comment-34510

Summaries appear below.

> The Elephant in the Room: a Vendor's Viewpoint
>
> Robert Pillow of VTLS will discuss the role of the vendor community in 
> the transition to a linked data environment. While LoC's Bibliographic 
> Framework Initiative is still in its infancy, a commitment to a 
> transition is evident; but, do we know where that transition will take 
> us? Many issues remain to be not only resolved, but in fact, 
> discovered. Current practices need not be an impediment to progress.
>
> Robert Pillow has worked in a variety of positions at VTLS in Customer 
> Services, Sales and Marketing, Design & Development, and Project 
> Management. His experience includes work as a Cataloger, Reference 
> Librarian, Circulation Manager, ILL Manager, teaching Library Science, 
> and service as a Library Board member within both academic and public 
> libraries.
>
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> New Prospects for Library Authority Data
>
> John Riemer will discuss how authority data can be put to new uses 
> outside an online catalog environment, including contributing to 
> scholarly research in a linked data environment, and outline changes 
> in practice (including those concerned with undifferentiated names) 
> that can help it play that role.
>
> John Riemer is Head of UCLA's Cataloging & Metadata Center. Within in 
> the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, he is Chair Emeritus of the 
> Policy Committee and Chair of the PCC Advisory Committee on 
> Initiatives.
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> From Authority Control to Linked Authority Data: the Gemeinsame 
> Normdatei in German Speaking Countries
>
> This presentation will describe recently completed Gemeinsame 
> Normdatei (GND) project, which merged the SWD, GKD, PND, and EST 
> authority files of the German-speaking countries into one integrated 
> authority file, structured by one common format.  Under the influence 
> of the Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD), a specific 
> focus was put on relationships and their coding, which may be seen as 
> a step into the Linked Data world.  This presentation will explain the 
> significance of the GND and its underlying concepts as a contribution 
> to the Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative.
>
> Reinhold Heuvelmann works in the Office for Library Standards at the 
> German National Library.  He is a member of the MARC Advisory 
> Committee, where he represents the German speaking countries at MARBI 
> meetings, and is also a member of the MODS/MADS Editorial Committee.
> He played a key role in the changeover of German and Austrian 
> libraries from the MAB-Format to MARC 21.

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Chew Chiat Naun
University of Minnesota Libraries
160 Wilson Library
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612) 625-5615

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