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Network Controlled Vocabularies Program [OCLC - Renovating Descriptive

Problem statement: Cultural heritage, bibliographic and archival communities use different controlled vocabularies for the resources that they manage. These controlled vocabularies may not be recognized by very diverse user communities, and ignored by large commercial information hubs and Internet search engines. Metadata needs to flow among diverse environments and reach users wherever they are. The semantic, hierarchical, and granular relationships in controlled vocabularies are often lost when retrieved outside the environment in which they were created.

Make Metadata Creation Processes More Effective Program [OCLC - Renovating Descriptive

Problem statement: Creating metadata that suits local needs, readily aggregates across communities, and is easily exposed to Internet search engines remains a costly enterprise. Metadata created by libraries, archives and museums is generally not available to the user communities that look first to Internet search engines. Although mapping data structures has become a commonplace solution to integrate descriptions, real interoperability across the libraries, archives and museums communities cannot be achieved without addressing differences of description at the data-content level.

Renovating Descriptive and Organizing Practices

Objective: Engage the RLG partnership in adapting descriptive practice to economic realities, user expectations, and the requirements of network-level services. Set new expectations for investing in metadata creation and maintenance, model attendant workflows, and facilitate the discovery of research institutions' resources by users wherever they are.

Cataloger's Learning Workshop

"Cataloger's Learning Workshop is a clearinghouse portal for cataloging and metadata training resources for information workers. The scope of Cataloger's Learning Workshop includes bibliographic information training in the context of formal library and information science degree programs, as well as continuing education for library practitioners. Cataloger's Learning Workshop is a cooperative project of the Library of Congress, the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, and the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association.
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Planet Cataloging

"Planet Cataloging is an automatically-generated aggregation of blogs related to cataloging and metadata"

"Steroid" Scandal Rocks Major League Libraries

"Steroid" Scandal Rocks Major League Libraries, a satirical response to erosion of support for cataloging at the Library of Congress, by Daniel Cohen (December 14, 2007).

Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

This project pulls together the official documents from the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, along with various commentary on the open meetings. 1st meeting: March 8, 2007 Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data 2nd meeting: May 9, 2007 Structures and Standards for Bibliographic Data 3rd meeting: July 9, 2007 Economics and Organization of Bibliographic Data

Cataloging Futures

A new blog on the future of cataloging.

"The focus of this blog is the future of cataloging and metadata in libraries. The preparation of the new cataloging code, RDA: Resource Description and Access, is a significant issue. The future of the MARC 21 format will also be explored. ILS/OPAC's future will be touch on also, but will not be the central focus. Also, I hope to use this blog to collocate some of the important papers, articles, websites, etc. that deal with the future of cataloging and metadata.
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My Mini Metadata Manifesto

Reflections on metadata, cataloging and digitial libraries

Metadata Tools for Geospatial Data

This page leads to summaries of most of the known metadata tools used for documenting geospatial data and serving geospatial metadata. It includes tools for entering and editing metadata and utilities for preprocessing, extracting, postprocessing, validating, and viewing metadata. Most of these tools were designed to help complete Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) metadata, but several have been tuned to produce specific local metadata profiles.

PASDA - Metadata Resources

FGDC to USMARC

The following crosswalk was done by Elizabeth Mangan, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.