{"id":75,"date":"2008-06-29T18:47:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T01:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=75"},"modified":"2008-06-29T18:47:11","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T01:47:11","slug":"ala-2008-a-has-been-cataloger-looks-at-what-cataloging-will-be-diane-hillmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/06\/ala-2008-a-has-been-cataloger-looks-at-what-cataloging-will-be-diane-hillmann\/","title":{"rendered":"ALA 2008: A Has-been cataloger looks at what cataloging will be &#8211; Diane Hillmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diane Hillmann is Director of Metadata Initiatives and the Information Institute of Syracuse (formerly of Cornell)<\/p>\n<p>There are several converging trends:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More catalogers work at a support staff level than as professional librarians\n<li>More cataloging records are selected by machines\n<li>More catalog records are being captured from publisher data or other sources\n<li>More updating of catalog records is done via batch processes\n<li>Libraries continue to de-emphasize processing of secondary research products (books and serials) in favour of unique, primary materials <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extinction<\/li>\n<li>Retool<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Extinction:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep cranking about how nobody appreciates us<\/li>\n<li>Asert over and over that we&#8217;re already doing everything right &#8211; why should we change?<\/li>\n<li>Adopt a &#8216;chicke little&#8217; approach to envisioning the future &#8220;the sky is falling&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Retool<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consider what cataloger do, and what they will do, and map training<\/li>\n<li>Look for support for retraining at many levels<\/li>\n<li>Find a new job title &#8211; catalogers do a lot of other things<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do &#8216;metadata librarians&#8217; do (as opposed catalogers &#8211; the retooled cataloger):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Think about descriptive data without pre-conceptions around descriptive level, granularity or descriptive vocabs<\/li>\n<li>Consider the entirety of the discovery and access issues around a set or collection of materials<\/li>\n<li>Consider users and uses beyond an individual service when making data design decisions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The metadata librarian is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>aware of changing user needs<\/li>\n<li>understands the evolving information environment<\/li>\n<li>works collaboratively with technical staff<\/li>\n<li>familiar with all metadata formats and encoding standards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The metadata librarian skill set is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Views data as collections, sets or streams<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Familiar with a variety of metadata formats (DC, VRA Core, MODS etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Understands basics of data encoding (XML, RDF etc.) but is generally not a provrammer<\/li>\n<li>Understands the various ways that data can be created (by humans or machines) and manipulated (crosswalked etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Characterisitics of the New World:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No more Integrated Library Systems<\/li>\n<li>Bibliographic utilities are unlikely to be the &#8216;central node&#8217; for all data<\/li>\n<li>Creation of metadata will become far more decentralized &#8211; not all library data<\/li>\n<li>Nobody knows how this will all shake out<\/li>\n<li>But: Metadata Librarians will be critical in forging solutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disintegrated Library Systems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All metadata will not be managed in and delivered from one central store<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Discovery is the first function that is being disaggregated from the ILS &#8211; there will be others<\/li>\n<li>Metadata may be managed in a variety of databases, structures and systems<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Role of bibliographic utilities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Optimized to be the middleman of the traditional data sharing system<\/li>\n<li>Currently limited to handling MARC data &#8211; not sure whether or when that will change (RDA will be firths challenge here)<\/li>\n<li>New services are contemplated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(as an aside OCLC getting a hard time here today &#8211; feel a bit sorry for Roy!)<\/p>\n<p>New models of creation and distribution<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All data will not be created by librarians<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>some will originate from machine processes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>We need to exchange data based on a more open model &#8211; 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