NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Barbara Vaughan, Column Editor
A NEW CCO WEBSITE
There is a new Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) Website <http://www.vraweb.org/ccoweb/cco/index.html>. This Website will soon include selections from the print edition of CCO in its "CCO selections" area. The text is being marked up now and will be posted within the next two months. For those who still do not have a copy of the full print version of CCO, it is available from ALA through <http://www.ala.org/ala/productspublications/Products_and_Publications.htm>.
Another new area of content that will be available sometime over the next two months is the "Cataloging Examples" section, categorized by work type (e.g, Architecture, Photographs/Film, Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects, etc.). These examples will be full CCO cataloging records and are being made available as an enhancement to the print publication. Once the initial set of examples is posted, the next step will be soliciting and posting examples from the community.
The "News and Events" section lists CCO training opportunities in the near future. As the new VRA CCO Committee moves forward, more content will be added. Announcements will be posted on the listservs when important new content is added.
Thanks are due to: Diane Zorich (CCO Project Manager), Murtha Baca, Linda McRae, and Patricia Harpring (the other CCO editors), and Kalika Yap of Citrus Studios, who designed the attractive site.
Regards,
Elisa Lanzi and Ann Whiteside, VRA Cataloging Cultural Objects Committee Co-Chairs
Adapted from a message originally posted by:
Ann Baird Whiteside, President, ARLIS/NA
Head, Rotch Library of Architecture & Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EARLY REGISTRATION FOR THE ARLIS/NA CONFERENCE
The ARLIS/NA Conference Planning Team is pleased to announce the opening of Early Registration on the Conference Website <http://www.arlis-se.org/atlanta2007/>. A registration form is available for download and online registration is coming soon. Early Registration is available through March 30, 2007 so please take a moment to review the Conference's preliminary program and begin making your plans to attend!
The Conference theme, "At the Crossroads: Inside, Outside, Past, Present, Future", has inspired a wide variety of exciting program content that will be of interest to the community. Keep checking the Conference Website for further updates and details about the 35th Annual Conference in Atlanta.
CONSER STANDARD RECORD IMPLEMENTATION DELAY
Previously it was announced that a phased implementation of the CONSER standard record would take place, with most elements implemented in the first phase on February 1, 2007 and other remaining elements in the second phase in a May/June 2007 timeframe. Several CONSER members raised concerns that a phased-in approach would have negative consequences on training and local implementation. In developing training material, it has become apparent that there are several clarifications that need to be made in documentation and the draft LCRIs related to the CONSER standard record that have been posted for comment. Additionally, the PCC continues to work with representatives of the Joint Steering Committee (JSC) to seek feedback on the compatibility of the new standard with RDA developments.
Taking all of these concerns into consideration, the PCC Steering Committee has decided against the phased approach and has approved a delayed implementation of all recommended data elements of the new CONSER standard record.
At the CONSER at large meeting held during ALA Midwinter, consensus was reached to wait for comments from the JSC before proceeding with implementation of the CONSER standard record. The expected date for JSC's discussion would be at their April meeting, or perhaps sooner, if the JSC is able to review the recommendations at an earlier meeting. Although agreement was not unanimous, the importance of CONSER libraries implementing the new standard record in a unified fashion was also supported by meeting attendees. In the event that remaining issues surrounding the full implementation of the standard record are not resolved by May, the CONSER Operations Committee will plan to discuss and recommend next steps at their regularly scheduled spring meeting.
Many thanks to everyone involved in the recent discussions regarding the phased implementation of the CONSER standard record. I very much appreciate the PCC community's continued willingness to work collaboratively for the benefit of all concerned.
Originally posted by:
Mechael Charbonneau
2007 Policy Committee Chair
Program for Cooperative Cataloging
ARSC MEMBERSHIPS 2007
The Outreach Committee of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) would like to remind those who are not members to consider joining ARSC.
ARSC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings--in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC is unique in bringing together anyone with an interest in recorded sound, including private individuals and institutional professionals.
Members will receive:
- The peer-reviewed ARSC Journal: published twice each year, containing a wealth of in-depth articles, papers, reports, and book and record reviews.
- The ARSC Newsletter: published three times per year, delivering timely announcements, short articles, and a calendar of coming events (submitted by the membership).
- The ARSC Membership Directory: compiled every two years, providing contact information for members and listing their collecting interests and research activities.
- Discounted registration for the annual ARSC Conference.
A one-year membership is just $36 for individuals, $40 for institutions. First-time members save $3. Any amount donated beyond the Individual or Institutional dues levels may be tax deductible. Full-time students may join at ARSC's very favorable, discounted membership of $20 per year. (Sorry, no additional $3 discount on new student memberships.)
To join, please visit <http://www.arsc-audio.org> or contact Peter Shambarger, ARSC Executive Director, at <execdir@arsc-audio.org>.
Originally posted by:
Anna-Maria Manuel
ARSC Outreach Committee Chair
This is a call for papers for the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, with the theme, "Application Profiles: Theory and Practice", which will be held on August 27-31, 2007 in Singapore <http://conferences.nlb.gov.sg/dc2007/>.
The annual Dublin Core Conference brings together leading metadata researchers and professionals from around the world. The 2006 Conference in Manzanillo, Mexico attracted 234 participants from 25 countries. DC-2007 in Singapore will be the seventh in a series of conferences previously held in Tokyo (2001), Florence (2002), Seattle (2003), Shanghai (2004), Madrid (2005), and Manzanillo, Mexico (2006).
Conference Theme:
The DC-2007 theme focuses on the theory and practice of developing application profiles. Application profiles provide the means to document the use of metadata terms within specific contexts and to combine terms from disparate namespaces. Application profiles may apply to communities of practice (e.g. cooperation projects) as well as to organizations in the public and private sectors. Emerging experience in the creation of application profiles reveals layers of complexity involved in combining terms from mixed abstract models. DC-2007 seeks to explore the conceptual and practical issues in the development and deployment of application profiles to meet the needs of specific communities of practice.
In addition to contributions focusing on the DC-2007 Conference theme, papers and workshop proposals are welcome on a wide range of metadata topics, such as:
Accessibility; Business models for metadata; Conceptual models; Cross-domain processes (e.g., recordkeeping, preservation, institutional repositories); Domain metadata (e.g., commerce, corporate/enterprise, cultural heritage institutions [museums, libaries, archives], education, geo-spatial, government, social spaces); Metadata generation processes (e.g., human, automatic, hybrid); Metadata harvesting; Multilingual issues; Interoperability; Knowledge organization systems (e.g., ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri); Localization and internationalization; Normalization and crosswalks; Quality and evaluation; Registries and registry services; Search engines and metadata; Social tagging.
Paper Categories:
All paper submissions to the Conference Proceedings are peer-reviewed by the International Program Committee. The Committee is soliciting paper contributions of the following two types:
- Full Papers (8 to 10 pages). Full papers either describe innovative original work in detail or provide critical, well-referenced overviews of key developments or good practice in the areas outlined above. Full papers will be assessed using the following criteria: Originality of the approach to implementation; Generalizability of the methods and results described; Quality of the contribution to the implementation community; Significance of the results presented; Clarity of presentation.
- Project Reports (3 to 5 pages). Project reports describe a specific model, application, or activity in a concise, prescribed format. Project reports will be assessed using the following criteria: Conciseness and completeness of technical description; Usability of the technical description by other potential implementers; Clarity of presentation.
Paper submissions in both categories must be in English and will be published in both the print and the official electronic versions of the Conference proceedings. Accepted papers must be presented in Singapore by at least one of their authors.
Workshop Proposals:
Workshop Proposals (1 page). Workshop proposals define the topic of a workshop session at the Conference, identify session organizers, and describe a process for inviting and reviewing contributions.
Online Submission:
Authors wishing to submit papers or workshop proposals may do so through the DCMI Peer Review System. <http://www.dcmipubs.org/ojs/index.php/pubs>. Author registration and links to the submission process appear under the "Information for Authors" link.
DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of papers: April 2, 2007
Acceptance notification: June 1, 2007
Camera-ready copy due: July 2, 2007
Originally posted by:
Linda Gabel, on behalf of Eric Childress
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
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