Catalogers Group Minutes

April 18, 2002

 

Present: Aivazian, Benamou, Bross, Chammou, Feinberg (recorder), Horwitz, LoPear, Matthiesen, McBride, Mendes, Morehead, Norris, Rashedi, Riemer, Riggio, Stumps

 

Open Archives Initiative Overview and Demo

 

Curtis Fornadley (LIS) made a presentation on the applicability of OAI standards to sheet music http://digital.library.ucla.edu/oai/OaiSheetMusicPresentation.ppt .  Curtis demonstrated the basic functions (“verbs”) of an OAI service provider, relying on the dynamic contents of the UCLA Archive of Popular American Music, http://digital.library.ucla.edu/oai/ . He discussed the OAI meeting at Bloomington, which John Riemer attended and reported on earlier.  It was a positive meeting, and participants volunteered for a technical group, data mapping group, user interface group, and a steering committee.  Recently ExComm has decided to commit Curtis’ time to do all the necessary programming.

 

Gia asked if this is like an index, Curtis agreed that it is.  John asked if the data can be harvested in batches or record-by-record on an ongoing basis; Curtis said only in batches—either the whole database each time or in installments picking up where previous one left off.  Valerie asked about security concerns.  Curtis said the database is read only; searchers can’t edit data after a search.  Jeff asked if the sheet music involved is published material; Curtis said that it is.

 

John listed several reasons why people are uncomfortable with comparing a service provider to a union catalog.  The latter connotes MARC records, but interoperability means that the records could just as easily be Dublin Core.  The data available in a service provider may not be all of the data the repository’s records had to offer, but we have had tools like the NUC microfiche (index-register format) that provide only partial data up front.  Union catalogs usually contain the holdings from all branches of knowledge from each participating institution, but then we have seen G.K. Hall publications covering certain subjects or formats from one or multiple participating libraries.  Curtis said he was comfortable with the union catalog analogy.

 

Music Library Association report from Joan LoPear

 

Joan attended the MOUG pre-conference; Sheet Music Roundtable; the Descriptive Cataloging Subcommittee and MARC formats subcommittee meeting; Authorities Subcommittee and Subject Access Subcommittee; UC and Stanford Music Librarians group; Southern California MLA Chapter meeting; Plenary Session on digital Audio Services; Jazz and Popular Music Roundtable.

 

The CC:DA and MARBI reports concerned: Conventional terminology and Chapter 6; Content/Carrier placement of electronic resources in AACR2r; implementing “unstacked” 041 language codes; UKMARC format alignment; defining additional 007 codes for archival sound recordings.

 

 

Rita announced that we should use the CALH search for call-number searching; the new CALN index has not yet been built.

 

First meeting in May (9th or 16th) will likely contain reports of the CONSER/BIBCO Operations Committee meetings at LC.  We await a chance to review and discuss the OTNG report.