Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals Cataloguing and Indexing Group biennial conference, University of Swansea, 31 August - 2 September 2016
Live notes, so an incomplete, partial record of what actually happened.
Tags: cig16
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Paper: Why on earth did this get passed to cataloguing? 16:00-16:40 Katrina Clifford (Kingston University)
{Alma is an LMS that lots of libraries are moving to .. notable subtext here on doing stuff so as to not put students off the library (NSS, first impressions)}
Paper: Re-purposing Wellcome Library catalogue metadata for discovery on the web 09:00-09:40 June Tomlinson (Wellcome Institute)
Digitisation projects. Disappointment about volume of use of digitised collections. Trying to offer richest possible search experience. Hence LOD. How can LOD be used in practice? After some deliberation, decided to implement http://schema.org/ Came up with a local solution to adding URIs for - say, VIAF or ISNI or ORCID - but also found through supplier that Library of Congress were doing the same: adding these to the authority files.
listening to @WellcomeLibrary work moving MARC to #LOD I think about Anila Angeli at SAA years ago: "model your data and set it free"#cig16
— Jennifer Schaffner (@genschaffner) September 1, 2016
#cig16 "Creating visualisations helped us move away from thinking of metadata as a way of describing disparate resources to map relations"
— Anne Welsh (@AnneWelsh) September 1, 2016
oh wow here goes! @WellcomeLibrary found the most inconsistent metadata in .. the archives, surprise surprise, so set out to clean-up #cig16
— Jennifer Schaffner (@genschaffner) September 1, 2016
{OpenRefine makes an appearance as an archives metadata cleaning tool}
and that's ok because @WellcomeLibrary has money #cig16 it's so kind of them to go first, for the public good https://t.co/id2O4TFfAJ
— Jennifer Schaffner (@genschaffner) September 1, 2016
Paper: How a university press is Improving discoverability 09:50-10:30 Concetta La Spada (Cambridge University Press)
Librarians and publishers both fear users who are annoyed (because they can't find what they want to fine).
{MARC records are full of modifiers, quirks, et al}
Interactive session: Getting to grips with bibliographic models 11:00-11:40 Anne Welsh (University College London)
https://padlet.com/annewelsh/cig16 .. model based on the idea that we (and users) want to link things together, came about over time as libraries moved from cards as a model.
See Work (that is, idea level; The Bible), Instance (that is, version level; a particular edition of the Bible), Item model (that is, the actual physical/digital object level; the copy of the Bible on a shelf in a particular place). Bibframe works like this.
Keynote Library Carpentry: software skills training for library professionals 11:45-12:30 James Baker (University of Sussex)
Notes: https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/96a32b70da2e03035272b6e5656696ad
Paper: FRBR, conceptual knowledge and Harry Potter: change and innovation in cataloguing education 13:30-14:10 Deborah Lee (Courtauld Institute)
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records ... Bloom's taxonomy of education: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation.
Teaching FRBR makes teaching RDA takes longer. It's not just more material to teach; it's a different type of knowledge. #cig16
— Ahava Cohen (@AhavaCohen) September 1, 2016
Learning something is nothing without being able to apply it .. some people need kinetic learning in order to remember stuff
Paper: Maverick metadata, or, cataloguing for beginners - a report 14:20-15:00 Amy Staniforth (Aberystwyth University)
Without a catalogue, a library is just a warehouse full of books. Cataloguing for beginners as a way of helping folks understand what cataloguing is: the tension between templates and decision making, the attention to the physical object (certainly with special collections).
{striking that cataloguing is so close to source analysis}
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