Registration is open for NISO's October webinar on Bibliographic Control
Alphabet Soup: AACR to RDA and Evolution of MARC, to be held on Wednesday,
October 14, 2009 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time).
Librarians, ILS vendors, and commercial cataloging service providers--as
well as a wide variety of related service providers--all know that the
proverbial, heavily acronym-spiced "bibliographic control alphabet soup"
involves the intelligent and well informed use of many ingredients. Chief in
these are constantly evolving standards, combined with more than a
sprinkling of creativity and insight. Three expert metadata chefs will
analyze and discuss specific alphabetic ingredients already in use or soon
to be implemented in the bib control kitchen.
Diane Hillmann (Director of Metadata Initiatives, Information Institute of
Syracuse) will provide an overview of RDA Elements and Vocabularies: a Step
Forward from MARC. RDA elements and vocabularies represent the distillation
of library descriptive knowledge, optimized for use within an environment
that speaks XML, RDF, and linked data, and expressed in an FRBR-aware
manner.
Barbara Tillett (Chief, Policy and Standards Division, Library of Congress)
will review There to Here to There -- AACR2 and RDA. Learn how what started
as AACR3 evolved into an entirely new approach with a new name.
William Moen (Associate Professor, School of Library and Information
Sciences, University of North Texas) will discuss results from the
IMLS-sponsored research project: Data-driven Evidence for Core MARC Records.
The project team examined 56 million WorldCat bibliographic records and
analyzed patterns of use by catalogers of available fields/subfields.
For more information and to register, visit the event webpage
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/bibcontrol09). Registration is per
site (access for one computer) and includes access to the online recorded
archive of the webinar. NISO and NASIG members receive a discounted member
rate. A student discount is also available. Can't make it on the 14th?
Register and gain access to the recorded archive for one year.
This message was cross-posted.
Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: [log in to unmask]
Phone: 301-654-2512
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