Mike Durbin – Edge Cases – Digitizing and delivering undescribed items in EAD
should automate as much of the workflow as possible
items selected for digitization, scanning, created/updating spreadsheet with ID and sequence, name image files according to ID/sequence
put it in for automated processing including quality control, files pushed into master file archive, ingested into Fedora, and e-mail is sent to collection manager
Finally, publication
Ryuuji Yoshimoto – Introducing CALIL.JP, scraping/mashup all of OPACs in JAPAN! PDF Slides
OPACs have no API
so start scraping OPACs, fighting with dirty HTML
2 months to scrap 200+ OPACs
CALIL.JP
realtime holding by through the CALIL API by ISBN, returns XML or JSON
item information from amazon and Google
now have many third-party apps e.g. browser extension
Kåre Fiedler Christiansen – Chucking all the software components in a library together to present recorded radio and tv
built MPEG -> streaming server
website -> cool design
cool design, website, streaming server, access control -> cool website
Shana L. McDanold, University of Pennsylvania via Skype, and
Laura Smart, Caltech.
It was great seeing a big mix of people, many of them neither cataloguers or coders. I have put in below my annotated version of the slides (see presentation link for link to original slides).
I apologize that this is actually a set of images (WP doesn’t support embedding of PDFs and I didn’t want to put it on slideshare/issuu), but the PDF version is also available.
The last couple of weeks in cataloguing have been on descriptive cataloguing using AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules) rules and MARC (MAchine Readable Code) coding. If ever we think that librarians cannot be decisive, then one area where they can be is cataloguing. Our instructors did not lie about this, and yet, being decisive and being consistent is not entirely the same thing.
Considering the number of rules in AACR2, I was initially under the impression that it would be like APA citation. Essentially, that there is a rule for everything and no matter who does it, it will look the same. Obviously, the areas left for local use (such as most of the MARC fields with a 9) will differ between libraries, as well as specific code classification, but I thought the descriptive part would be uniform. Then I discovered that I was quite wrong.
Title Information or Not?
Despite the numerous rules, there are many areas that leave room for interpretation. One of the items I had for our assignment was a directory for an auto exhibition. The main title was fairly clear, but then I wondered whether the location (the exhibition hall) which was on the title page should be listed as other title information considering it was written underneath the title almost as if it was a subtitle.
Another issue which to consider the primary language (which would be listed first) in a bilingual book. [insert pictures] Would you do it based on the primary language of your library or would you use any other clues you could find? (I used both since the centrefold picture was in the same direction as the primary language of the assignment.)
How much Publisher Information to include?
As publisher information can be from a variety of sources, how much would you include? In the case that there is no (clear) publisher, which is more important? Distributor? Printer? Copyright holder?
In the end, I somewhat made up the statement of responsibility and came up with this:
Taipei : Printed by Wuchou Color Phtoengraving for Taiwan External Trade Development Council [organizer], 2008
Notes
Finally, there’s notes. The extend to which it’s filled out and exactly how is up to the cataloguer, which of course means that it will differ. Interestingly, they may not be as different as one might think as there are a far amount of rules surrounding the order, how one might format it, and MARC coding will even separate numerous notes into specific fields. It may be more or less complete, but having looked at various catalogue entries for the same item, they are fairly consistent.
Right or Wrong?
What I begin to wonder is who’s to say which way is right or wrong? Who might be able to say which way is better? I’m starting to think there must be a listserv of some sort for this sort of thing that maybe us students just don’t know about yet…
