Background Notes for Developing the Clearinghouse
Introduction
These are my notes for developing the CAME clearinghouse; this is a first draft
and feedback on both the Workplan and Proof of Concept will be much appreciated.
Points to pay special attention to:
Acronym or name for the clearinghouse - Is CAME too lame? :)
Comments on the structure of the clearinghouse
Comments on category labels
Know a good resource? Please send it to me (asc@u.arizona.edu)
Thanks for your support and help!
Cataloging and Metadata Topics of Interest (not an exhaustive list but
picked from the ALCTS report Levels of Expertise):
- Definitions of cataloging, descriptive cataloging, access points,
authority control, subject analysis, controlled vocabulary (including
subject headings and classification), and effects of controlled
vocabularies on searching.
- Definitions, types and functions of cataloging and metadata
- What is a bibliographic record? Examples of bibliographic record.
What is a metadata record? Examples of a metadata record.
- History of Anglo-American cataloging
- Principles of cataloging
- Practice of cataloging - how to use MARC or bibliogrpahic utilities
- OPACs
- National Union Catalogs
- Bibliographies - what are they? history
- Library system vendors
- Standards of cataloging and metadata (for example: AACR2R, MARC, DC,
Z39.2, APPM, GILS, FGDC, VRA, EAD, TEI, ISBD)
- Guides and documentation for the use of tools such LCSH, Web Dewey,
Class Web, Cataloger's Desktop, UDC,
- Well known metadata projects: ROADS, CORC, Nordic Metadata Project
- Markup languages (HTML, SGML, XML)
Type/Form of Resource (not an exhaustive list but picked from a few experts'
websites; an asterisk indicates some of what I actually found):
- Activity (includes hands-on exercises and assignments here)*
- Book*
- Conference Proceeding
- Conference Paper*
- Conference Presentation*
- Conference Poster
- Dataset
- Documentation*
- Ebook
- Ejournal (on-line journal, unpaginated)
- Ejournal article (on-line journal, unpaginated)
- FAQ
- Guide*
- Interactive Material*
- Journal (Paginated)
- Journal Article (Paginated)
- Lesson Plan
- Library Instructional Material
- Metadata
- Module (of Instruction)*
- Newspaper article
- Pathfinder
- Preprint
- Presentation
- Reading List*
- Report*
- Short Courses*
- Standard*
- Syllabus (or Course Outline)*
- Textbook
- Thesis*
- Tutorial*
- Unit (of Instruction)*
- Webliography
Sample items and descriptions:
Sample: Activity
Type of Resource: Activity
Author: Allyson Carlyle
Title: Cataloging Exercises for UW iSchool Beginning Cataloging Course
Location/Identifier: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/acarlyle/courses/catex.htm
Description: A collection of exercises (5) and answers with not completely real
title pages - they are based on actual documents, but the exercise title pages
& information have been changed to create bibliographic ghosts (non-existent
documents).
Rights:
Copyright: 2004 Carlyle
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: N/A (unknown)
Format of Resource: Text/html (but the individual exercises and answers are
in Microsoft Word)
Educational Level: Level I CAME
Subject: TBD
Sample: Activity
Type of Resource: Activity
Author: Allyson Carlyle
Title: Exercise 1: "Library Trustee" Introduction to Descriptive Cataloging.
Location/Identifier: URL:
http://www.ischool.washington.edu/acarlyle/courses/CarlyleExercisel.doc
Description: This is a single page MS Word file that shows the title page of a
book, "Library Trustee". It can be used for teaching cataloging using a
monographic workform and AACR2R descriptive rules.
Rights:
Copyright: 2004 Carlyle (email: acarlyle@u.washington.edu)
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: N/A (unknown)
Format of Resource: Microsoft Word
Educational Level: CAME Level I
Subject: TBD
Sample: Activity
Type of Resource: Activity
Author: Allyson Carlyle
Title: Exercise 1 Answer: Possible Cataloging of "Library Trustee".
Location/Identifier: URL:
http://www.ischool.washington.edu/acarlyle/courses/CarlyleExercise1ans.doc
Description: This is a two page MS Word file that shows the monographic
workform for the book "Library Trustee" with the cataloging done.
It can be used for teaching cataloging using a monographic workform and
AACR2R descriptive rules. The second page explains the codes and
tags used on the workform.
Rights:
Copyright: 2004 Carlyle
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: N/A (unknown)
Format of Resource: Microsoft Word
Educational Level:
Subject:
Sample: Documentation
Type of Resource: Documentation
Author: None
Title: OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/default.htm
Description: this site is a guide to bibliographic information on records in
WorldCat. It provides tagging conventions, input standards and guidelines
for entering information. This can be used for teaching use of OCLC MARC.
Rights:
Copyright: 2003 OCLC Online Computer Library Center
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: N/A (unknown)
Date of last modification: November 2003.
Format of Resource:
Educational Level:
Subject:
Sample: Ejournal article
Type of Resource: Ejournal article
Author: Erik Duval, Wayne Hodgins, Stuart Sutton, and Stuart Weibel
Title: Metadata Principles and Practices
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/weibel/04weibel.html
Description: Review article by Stuart Weibel, D-Lib Magazine, 8(4).
Rights:
Copyright: 2002 Erik Duval, Wayne Hodgins, Stuart Sutton, and Stuart L. Weibel
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: N/A (unknown)
Date of last modification: 4/2002
Format of Resource: html
Educational Level:
Subject
Sample: Presentation
Type of Resource: Presentation
Author: Taylor, Arlene
Title: Cataloging: Ticket to the Past, the Present, and the Future
Location/Identifier: URL: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/Institute/Taylor/index.html
Description: It presents a brief history and busts (based on a modest study)
four misconceptions about traditional cataloging: print materials will disappear,
libraries don't need cataloging, cataloging with AACR2 is too detailed, and
subject headings aren't needed. AACR2 is based on basic principles of
description and access and these will be still around in the information age.
Rights:
Copyright: 2000 Arlene G. Taylor
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: N/A (unknown)
Format of Resource: PowerPoint
Educational Level:
Subject
Sample: Unit of instruction
Type of Resource: Units of Instruction
Author: Miller, Steve J.
Title: Library of Congress, SCCTP training materials: Integrating Resources
Cataloging Workshop
Location/Identifier: URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/cds/training.html#ircw
Description: The course is based on the revised chapters 9 and 12 of AACR2 and
covers all integrating resources, with an emphasis on electronic resources.
Package includes PowerPoint presentation files, Portable Document Format (PDF)
files for the Instructor's and Trainee manuals, and cover art for manual
binders. This can be used as training tools to teach cataloging of electronic
serials.
Rights:
Copyright: 2003 United State Library of Congress
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: N/A (unknown)
Date of last modification: 6/17/04
Format of Resource: html
Educational Level:
Subject
Experts Websites
Here is a list of the experts and websites I briefly analyzed.
- People
- Steve Miller - http://www.uwm.edu/~mll/resource.html
- Allyson Carlyle - http://www.ischool.washington.edu/acarlyle/courses/catex.htm
- Arlene Taylor - http://www.pitt.edu/~agtaylor/
- Candy Schwartz - http://web.simmons.edu/~schwartz/
- Ingrid Hsieh-Yee - http://slis.cua.edu/ihy/home.htm
- Anita Coleman - http://radio.weblogs.com/0109575/stories/2003/01/17/toolbox.html
- Curriculum/syllabi of cataloging courses on the WWW
- http://eagle.clarion.edu/~faculty/jmaccaferri/ls502syl043CS.htm
- http://hypatia.slis.hawaii.edu/~osborne/605/605syl.pdf
- A complete list of LIS schools can be found at OCLC: http://lis.oclc.org/learning/schools/index.htm (not used)
- Some resources at bibliographic utilities and library system vendors:
- OCLC - (look through documentation and training guides/materials)
- RLIN - (look through documentation and training guides)
- Andrew Osborne maintains a list of vendors: http://libinfo.com/vendors-systems.html
(lots of documentation and training guides)
Created by Anita Coleman for the Web Clearinghouse ALCTS/LOC taskforce
08/30/04