{"id":80,"date":"2008-06-29T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T23:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=80"},"modified":"2008-06-29T16:54:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T23:54:58","slug":"ala-2008-extensible-cataloging-jennifer-bowen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/06\/ala-2008-extensible-cataloging-jennifer-bowen\/","title":{"rendered":"ALA 2008: eXtensible cataloging &#8211; Jennifer Bowen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extensiblecatalog.info\/\">eXtensible Catalog<\/a> (XC) project based at the University of Rochester. <a href=\"http:\/\/docushare.lib.rochester.edu\/docushare\/dsweb\/Get\/Document-32280\/ALA%202008%20Future%20of%20Catalogs%20no%20notes.pptx\">Jennifer&#8217;s slides<\/a> are available online.<\/p>\n<p>This is the &#8216;local&#8217; approach, as opposed to Roy&#8217;s &#8216;network level&#8217; &#8211; but she sees them as complimentary.<\/p>\n<p>What is the eXtensible catalog?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set of open-source tools\n<li>Facilitate resource discovery and metadata management\n<li>Software due to release July 2009<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The eXtensible catalog has\/will have the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Empower libraries to customize\/develop discovery solutions &#8211; lower the bar for creating applications on top of the XC s\/w\n<li>Integrate library content into various web environments\n<li>Enabling sharing of metadata <em>and<\/em> software (we are good at the former, but not the latter Jennifer says)\n<li>Expand the role of libraries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are 13 fte working on the project, including 6 developers, with two metadata consultants (Diane Hillmann and Jon Phipps)<\/p>\n<p>The XC <em>is not<\/em> an ILS, but will work alongside the ILS using OAI-PMH to move metadata around. There will be out-of-the-box user interface functionality, but Jennifer is stressing this is not the main point &#8211; XC is about a toolset.<\/p>\n<p>XC will provide toolsets for customization, web application development, metadata enrichment; an infrastructure to go beyond MARC cataloging.<\/p>\n<p>There is also the concept of the XC Network &#8211; moving metadat from the ILS and other repositories that hold metadata into a &#8216;Metadata Hub&#8217;, which can then push metadata out to other applications &#8211; the library website, learning environments or custom applications. Also from these external sites, metadata will flow back into the metadata hub when it is enhanced e.g. by user contributions<\/p>\n<p>Alongside this there will be &#8216;metadata services&#8217; that can be applied to any metadata moving through the hub &#8211; this is stuff like content enrichment. Jennifer is going to talk about this more.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is that XC:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Empowers libraries<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Lowers the bar&#8217; for local development<\/li>\n<li>works alongside network-level applications<\/li>\n<li>focuses attention upon needs of local users<\/li>\n<li>encourages user research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jennifer saying we need more &#8216;user research&#8217; to understand what they need, and the aim is that XC will let us focus on this.<\/p>\n<p>There are new roles for catalogers\/cataloging<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Design local applications<\/li>\n<li>Engage in user research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are challenges &#8211; need to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep an open mind<\/li>\n<li>Present options, not objections<\/li>\n<li>Think broadly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We need to &#8216;make changes&#8217;. We need to look beyond what our standards &#8216;allow&#8217; &#8211; rather say &#8216;the users need it &#8211; so how do we do it?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>If we integrate library content into web environments we can bring metadata to new users &#8211; more challenges:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Perceived loss of control<\/li>\n<li>Rethink standards development<\/li>\n<li>Need to make legacy metadata as usable as possible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jennifer noting that some of these have been difficult for her &#8211; can be uncomfortable to contemplate &#8211; but need to engage.<\/p>\n<p>The XC metadata services will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Normalizations<\/li>\n<li>Schema transformation<\/li>\n<li>FRBRization<\/li>\n<li>Authority enrichment<\/li>\n<li>Sharing metadata &#8211; post-MARC metadata (MARCXML, with enrichments) &#8211; includes sharing user generated metadata<\/li>\n<li>Share metadata enrichment services &#8211; libraries can develop and hare additional services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All this suggests new roles for catalogers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Design and test metadata services<\/li>\n<li>manage flow of metadata<\/li>\n<li>system\/application design<\/li>\n<li>user research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jennfier rejecting of &#8216;centralisation&#8217; of cataloguers (note cataloguers not necessarily cataloging I guess)<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:9bee0f16-f99c-48e0-a113-eede7b8e0d80\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ala2008\" rel=\"tag\">ala2008<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer is from the eXtensible Catalog (XC) project based at the University of Rochester. 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