Workshop Descriptions
Basic Videorecordings Cataloging
Presenter: Jay Weitz
The workshop assumes basic knowledge of the MARC 21 format for Visual Materials and AACR2 cataloging rules for videorecordings, but is suitable for catalogers at all levels of experience. Discussion will be guided in part by audience questions, focusing on specific video cataloging problems. We will begin with a brief historical background of the AACR2 rules, then cover sources of information, when to input a new record, special considerations for music videos, physical/technical descriptions, and possibly other topics. A packet of examples will be provided and there will be ample opportunities for questions.
Advanced Videorecordings Cataloging
Presenter: Jay Weitz
The workshop assumes basic knowledge of the MARC 21 format for Visual Materials and AACR2 cataloging rules for videorecordings, but is suitable for catalogers at all levels of experience. Discussion will be guided in part by audience questions, focusing on specific video cataloging problems. Among possible topics of discussion are dates, numbers associated with videos, field 007, DVDs and other videodiscs, streaming videos, "in" analytics, closed captioning and audio enhancement, genre headings, statements of responsibility, and collections, among others. A packet of examples will be provided and there will be ample opportunities for questions.
Map Cataloging
Presenter: Paige Andrew
This basic maps cataloging workshop will introduce attendees to the three descriptive areas of the bibliographic record that typically cause concern and consternation. Those three areas are: titles and choosing between multiple titles for the title proper, scale statements and conversion (and touch on projection and coordinates), and physical description with a focus on taking correct measurements. The instructor's primary goal is to build confidence in working with the details of these areas, as well as to teach the correct way to handle the data that goes into each. We will learn to use the Natural Scale Indicator with a hands-on exercise, and will conclude with the attendees creating a brief descriptive record for a map.
Attendees will receive a set of handouts as reference materials that touch on the entire range of descriptive and other elements contained in the bibliographic record for maps. The handouts cover not only the above-mentioned areas but also those fixed fields that are unique to, or used differently with, cartographic materials, an overview of subject analysis and call number construction using the G-Schedule, plus bibliographies and several "ready reference" resources. In addition, each attendee will receive a Natural Scale Indicator thanks to the map distributor company, MapLink. Copies of Mr. Andrew's book, Cataloging Sheet Maps, the Basics will be available for purchase at a discounted price as well.
Sound recording
Presenter: Mary Huismann
This workshop, geared to catalogers who are beginning to catalog sound recordings, or those desiring a refresher, will focus on the basic descriptive cataloging of sound recordings covered by the rules of AACR2 Chapter 6. We will also look at other relevant parts of AACR2 and coding MARC fields specific to music. Special attention will be given to problematic areas such as dates, uniform titles, and main entry.
Electronic resources
Presenter: Amy K. Weiss
In order to catalog electronic resources it is necessary to use the rules for electronic resources in conjunction with rules for other types of materials in order to produce meaningful records. The workshop will cover cataloging of monographic resources using MARC and AACR2, but with a view to future developments.
Introduction to Metadata for Educational Resources
Presenter: Rob Wolfe
Universities all over the nation are catching podcast fever. Not coincidentally, open access movements are also starting on campuses around the world. These programs take advantage of new technologies to cost-effectively distribute educational resources to an eager public. Sharing one's teaching material requires the application of robust metadata systems. This provides an opportunity for libraries to collaborate with educational and cultural institutions. This session will provide an introduction to the metadata systems employed in the preparation of MIT podcasts and OpenCourseWare. Topics covered will be Dublin Core, IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM), IMS Content Packaging, METS, RSS and ID3 tags. This session will be informative for those who have little or no experience with these non-Marc metadata schemes, but want to be prepared to discuss them with colleagues.
VRA Core 4.0 and CCO
Presenters: Trish Rose, Elizabeth O'Keefe
The Visual Resources Association will be releasing two new metadata standards for the cultural heritage community in summer of 2006. The Cataloging Cultural Objects guidelines (aka CCO) and the VRA Core 4.0 are specifically designed for describing works of art, cultural artifacts, and the still images that represent them. CCO is a data content standard (similar to AAC2 or DACS) and Core 4.0 is a set of metadata elements and XML encoding structure (similar to MARCXML). Come learn more about the importance and application of these two standards.
Gathering Audio Metadata for the Monterey Jazz Festival Concerts
Presenter: Nancy Hoebelheinrich
What do jazz playing and metadata creation have in common? Improvisation!
At the time Stanford University Libraries' Archive of Recorded Sound received its grants to digitize the audio tapes of the Monterey Jazz Festival Concerts, there was no formally agreed upon metadata schema or data dictionary for technical and preservation metadata for audio files. Pre-existing descriptive metadata did not adhere to any consistent standard, and were captured in a flat file database that only awkwardly represented the hierarchical structure of the digital objects. In addition, metadata necessary for the digital audio files and their metadata to be ingested into the Stanford Digital Repository did not exist. As a result, key challenges for this project involved mapping of the existing descriptive metadata to both Dublin Core qualified and MODS descriptive metadata schemes, adapting the Audio Engineering Society's draft schema for technical and source metadata, capturing preservation metadata in PREMIS, and encoding the whole ensemble in a pre-specified METS package for ingestion into Stanford's preservation repository. This workshop will take the participants through the analysis, research, development, and compromises involved in providing metadata services for a real life digitization project in a complex, rapidly changing storage, access and delivery environment.
