ER&LMarch, 2008

kcoyle@kcoyle.net

Karen Coyle

ER&L

March, 2008

There’s no catalog….

… like no catalog

Karen Coyle

ER&L

March, 2008

There’s no catalog….

http://www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm

~50% use librarycatalog at least once a year

Lolita

Lolita

Your Library

4. Obtain

3. Select

FRBR User Tasks

2. Identify

1. Find

http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/mellon/

WorldCat Identities

Being “on the network"

OPAC

Being "in the network"

OPACBib

Bib

Bib

Semantic Web

John Smith

It’s a book

writes

The It’s a Book Series

Is volume 3 ofYet another book

translates

Pub

publishes

publishes

NextGen Catalog(ing)

NextGen Catalog(ing)

• “web-ify” library data

• make library data available to online services

• allow re-use of library bibliographic data

• take library data to the user

What’s Happening

• Resource Description and Access– http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rda.html

• Future of Bibliographic Control– http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/

• Dublin Core/RDA Task Force– http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/FrontPage

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rda.html

http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/

http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/

Dublin Core Singapore Framework

Geo CodesLanguagesCarriersColorFormat

Vocabularies

TitleEditionPlace (of pub)Date (s)ProducerCarrierExtentSoundLanguageIdentifiers

“Properties”

DCMI/RDA Vocabularies Project

Dublin Core Singapore Framework

What’s Happening

• Resource Description and Access– http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rda.html

• Future of Bibliographic Control– http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/

• Dublin Core/RDA Task Force– http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/FrontPage

Karen Coyle

kcoyle@kcoyle.net