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Recording Available: Telling Stories with Library Data: Visualization Projects and Tools

ARLIS/NA has now made recordings available of eight sessions from the 49th Annual Conference, held virtually in May 2021. One of the available sessions is Cataloguing II: Telling Stories with Library Data: Visualization Projects and Tools, linked here. This session took place on May 11, 2021, as part of the ARLIS/NA Virtual Conference hosted by the ARLIS/NA MOQ Chapter. Presenters include William Blueher, Michael Cummings, Catherine Derose, Lindsay King, and Alex O’Keefe. The presentations focus on how libraries can leverage their data to create meaningful visual narratives and gain new insights about themselves. Blueher and Cummings shared a case study from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library. In their presentation, they explore how Power BI can be used to analyze a library’s data and tell a compelling story. Transforming numbers into narratives gives stakeholders a deeper insight into the impact of the library. Derose, King, and O’Keefe share a second case study on Ensemble@Yale, which is a crowdsourced transcription project that enlists volunteers to generate structured metadata from digitized performance programs in the archives. Both case studies include demonstrations of tools for data collection, cleaning, visualization.

These tools include: 

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Recording Available: The Cataloging Manual Reinvented: the New RDA Toolkit and the 3R Project

ARLIS/NA has released recordings of eight sessions from the 2021 ARLIS/NA Virtual Conference, including the session Cataloguing III: The Cataloging Manual Reinvented: the new RDA Toolkit and the 3R Project. This session took place on May 12, 2021, as part of the ARLIS/NA Virtual Conference hosted by the ARLIS/NA MOQ Chapter. Presenters include Sherman Clarke, Liz O’Keefe, Alex Provo, Andrea Puccio, and Karen Stafford. In the presentation, members of the ARLIS/NA Cataloging Advisory Committee give a general overview of the changes to RDA and the major conceptual and functional changes made to the Toolkit with a focus on the needs of art catalogers. RDA and the RDA Toolkit have undergone a substantial revision known as the 3R project (RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign). Panelists present on the CAC’s efforts to propose changes to RDA, on the potential creation of an RDA Toolkit application profile for cataloging art material, and the committee’s ongoing revision of the “Cataloging exhibition publications: best practice” document (published by ARLIS/NA in 2010) to comply with RDA standards.

View the recorded session at this link, and check out the official RDA 3R Learning Resources site for information, presentations and tutorials on the new RDA Toolkit.

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2019 ARLIS/NA Cataloging Advisory Committee (CAC) Annual Meeting Report

The CAC held their annual meeting on Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 12:30pm in the Grand America Hotel, Salt Lake City during the ARLIS/NA 2019 Conference. The meeting was attended by members of the Committee, as well as approximately twenty ARLIS/NA members.
CAC members for the 2019-2020 year are: Andrea Puccio (Chair, 1st year), Bronwen Bitetti, William Blueher, Sherman Clarke (representative to the ALA Subject Analysis Committee), Marie-Chantal L’Ecuyer-Coelho (representative to Art and Rare Materials BIBFRAME Ontology Extension, not in attendance), John Maier (representative to the MARC Advisory Committee), Liz O’Keefe, Maria Oldal, Sarah Osborne Bender, Alexandra Provo, Rachel Resnik (ARLIS/NA Executive Board liaison), and Karen Stafford (representative to the ALA Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access).

New members joining the Committee are: Sarah Osborne Bender, Head of Technical Services at the National Gallery of Art and Alexandra Provo, Metadata Librarian, New York University.

Bronwen Bitetti
Cataloging Exhibition Publications revision update
Revision is underway, the current plan is to combine all the sections into one document which will be updated to RDA. There have been a few calls out to the community over the last year for cases that people felt needed clarification, thank you to all who responded. Some of the points we will be focusing on that didn’t come up in those calls
● Questions on determining the primary access point
● Uniform titles and Conventional Collective Titles (CCTS)
● Added titles
● Application of relationship designators
● Curator
● Application of genre/form headings
We have made progress in revision but we need to see 3R and be able to add rule numbers and determine how this document will relate to the application profile for the toolkit. With luck and a lot of work we are hoping we will be able to deliver something next year. In addition we have also identified some issues that we initially swallowed as a community but that we have now had a chance to unravel them a bit and this is perhaps a chance to do some advocacy.

Genre/Form terms
6 new terms have been accepted

Photography, artistic
Official word from Libby Dechman, it is fine art so it may be subdivided chronologically without the intervening $x History. It has been added to the LC manual PDFs but will not appear on Cataloger’s Desktop until its next update.

Discussion points from ARLIS/NA liaisons:

John Maier
MARC Advisory Committee (MAC)
● Proposal 2 Defining source for names and titles
○ PCC task force looking at URIs and a way to define where the string is coming from, proposing a $2. The difficulty here is that it would be hard to ensure what is in the $2 applies to the entire string (particularly tricky with a name/title heading)
● Intertitles and transcripts discussion paper
○ was accepted and will most likely be coming back as a proposal at annual

Sherman Clarke
Subject Analysis Committee (SAC)
● New genre/form list for video games, not officially accepted by LC as part of LCGFT but has been posted on the OLAC site
● Richard Sapon-White from Oregon State University gave a presentation on his work to analyse the tribes, subtribes and bands of Oregon and whether they were in the NAF or LCSH and how their hierarchy was established and played out in bib records etc.
● New SACO funnel for Latin America and indigenous peoples of the Americas
● LC is working on making any former headings with multiples explicit. E.g. religions using Buddhism, Christianity, et. Similar to the validation records for strings with free floating headings
● PCC task force on how to get rid of ISBD punctuation or rather how to have it machine supplied. Complicated
● NACO participants must now add your own statistics

Bronwen Bitetti for Marie-Chantal L’Ecuyer-Coelho
Art and Rare Materials BIBFRAME Ontology Extension (ARM) Task Force
● Newly established group, Marie-Chantal will be the ARLIS/NA liaison.
● Joint effort of ARLIS, RBMS, and SAA
● First meeting will be next month

Karen Stafford
Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA)
● RDA news, 3R project coming to a close, text will be frozen as of April. It will be going out to the translation teams for the rest of this year, projected completion in December with the new toolkit going live in January 2020. Old version will stay up for 1 year then we will be expected to be on new RDA
● The new toolkit will have a numbering system but the numbering is random
● The biggest impact on our community will most likely be the need for front end application profiles in order to use the new RDA, RSC will create a model profile (probably a book) but the cataloging community will be expected to fill in the gaps. There is now a new RDA YouTube channel
● IFLA work on LRMoo to replace FRBRoo is continues (oo = object oriented) should be in harmony with the CIDOC reference model that is maintained by the museum community, NARDAC does not currently expect it to have an impact on new RDA (seems unlikely)
● Still working to find a solution to the narrowed definition of “person”. Issue since we need to bring non-human personages (and fictitious characters) into bibliographic records. Still no word on how this affects anonymous artists or a workshop of type of situation
● No final word on how diachronic works will be treated
● We attempted to propose a change to the role designator “curator” before the text was frozen to change the relationship from agent to item to agent to a higher level (work perhaps?) but the answer we received was that the special collections community needed it at the item level but we will follow up after they open up for proposals

Projects continuing in 2019/2020

Artists’ book thesaurus
Several years ago the Book Arts SIG created a list of terms for cataloging artists’ books. There was interest in publishing the list as a thesaurus that could then allow the terms to be incorporated into bib records. It was forwarded to the CAC for review. We reviewed the list and put together our concerns, comments, and recommendations for next steps and sent that to Heather Slania and Suzanne Rackover.

Potential for collaboration with Andrea Joosten and the German language librarians who are working on an RDA compliant artists’ book cataloging manual. This has come up in past conference as a possible project for this group so we are very interested to see if we can work together on this.

Communication/Call for participation

CAC membership is restricted by the organization’s bylaws to a small group which means we can’t always complete the variety of projects we have in as timely fashion as we would like. We also recognize that we could often benefit from subject specialties and experience. We have been thinking about could we have a “friends of the CAC”? People who are interested in working with the committee on a specific project or consulting on a topic.
There was a general agreement with this idea from the attendees and several marked their interest on the attendance sheet.
Sherman – another area where we could perhaps use a slack channel.

Questions/Discussion

Liz- There will be an article in the fall issue of Art Documentation on ArtFrame by Liz, Marie-Chantal, and Melanie Wacker

Karen – Any ideas on RDA related content at next year’s conference? What will be useful?
Andrea – Too unknown right now, also there have been several delays. Where will they be by next April?

[Unknown attendee] – Perhaps it will be too soon to have a panel, maybe just scheduling a time to have an RDA discussion group (support group)

Lu Wainer – Maybe instead of focusing on RDA we could focus on LRM? So when we actually get new RDA we will understand the underlying structure

Bronwen – I would love to hear how the Bibframe test is going.

Lu Wainer – I am part of LD4P. They are developing Sinopia on top of LC’s bibframe editor. It is supposed to be done in April and they are starting to release training material. A few task forces and working groups are ready, there’s one for profiles, rare materials, authorities look ups. There has been some discussion about ISNI because it is not linked data yet, supposedly will be by June. Everything is just kind of frozen because the actual editor isn’t done yet.

 

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2019 ARLIS/NA Cataloging Section Meeting Recap

The Cataloging Section met for its annual meeting March 28, 2019, led by Emily Walz in the Envoy Room of the Grand America Hotel, Salt Lake City. At least 28 members attended.

 

The meeting began with the introduction of Emily Walz, Librarian in the Art & Architecture Collection at the New York Public Library, and Adam Robinson, Cataloging and Metadata Services Librarian at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Vice-Moderator/Moderator Elect).

 

Announcements highlighted cataloging-centric offerings at this year’s conference, including three workshops: (The Art of OpenRefine: Data Manipulation, Reconciliation & Grel; Leveraging MarcEdit to Bring (Better) Data to Light; and Clarifying the Quagmire of Cataloging Book Arts and Artists’ Publications), two sessions: (Catalogers’ Judgements: Ethical Cataloging and Artists from Underrepresented Groups; and Getting Started with Collections as Data), and several meetings: (Artists’ Books RDA Manual Project, Cataloging Advisory Committee, Cataloging Problems Discussion Group).

 

Emily presented a summary of Catablog stats (8 posts, 1718 views, and 991 visitors from 13 countries; featured as a resource for a Metadata Course) and emphasized the recent launch of the Cataloging Section Slack Workspace as a tool for increasing engagement.

 

Karen Stafford gave a report on the ALA Committee on Cataloging, John Maier reported on the Marc Advisory Committee, Sherman Clarke gave an update on the Subject Analysis Committee and Art Genre/Form Project, Bronwen Bitetti reported on the Cataloging Advisory Committee and on behalf of Marie-Chantal L’Ecuyer-Coelho regarding the Art and Rare Materials BIBFRAME Ontology Extension Task Force.

 

Open Discussion topics included formation of a Linked Data SIG (to begin informally as a Slack channel and/or discussion group), interest in the future of the Artists’ Book Thesaurus, filling out more Slack channels (ILS, etc.), and the potential for Section webinars/GoToMeetings throughout the year.

 

Suggestions for next year’s conference included offering a workshop or meeting on dealing with RDA 2.0, repeating a Catalogers’ Judgement panel, and offering workshops similar to the MarcEdit and OpenRefine workshops this year, perhaps split into beginner and intermediate/advanced sessions.

 

Zimra Panitz, Head of Technical Services at the School of Visual Arts, was elected as the next Vice-Moderator.

 

For more a more in-depth meeting summary, see 2019 Section Meeting notes (courtesy of William Blueher)

 

To share thoughts or ideas on the Section or Conference, join us on Slack or use the “Contact” link to send us a message.

 

Thanks to all who attended!

 

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Cat Section Annual Meeting Agenda (2019)

Get ready to meet and mingle with your cataloging colleagues!

The Cataloging Section will meet this year at the ARLIS/NA annual conference in Salt Lake City at the Grand America Hotel, on Thursday, March 28 at 8 AM. For the most up-to-date information on time and location, refer to the conference Sched.

A limited number of print copies of the 2019 Cat Section Agenda will be made available at the meeting.

See you there!

 

(Image: Sam B. Dill’s Circus in Mineola, New York. Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library via NYPL Digital Collections)

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Section Meeting at 2019 ARLIS/NA Conference

The Cataloging Section meeting at the 2019 ARLIS/NA conference in Salt Lake City will be held on Thursday, March 28 from 8:00am – 8:50am, in Envoy (Level 1) at the Great America Hotel.

There are just two things we need to help make the meeting, and the year, a success:

  • A new Vice-moderator/Moderator elect: If you are interested in getting involved and contributing to the Cataloging Section, please contact us! This is a great chance to get involved with ARLIS/NA and contribute to the cataloging community. All are welcome! The only requirement is an enthusiasm for art metadata and serving the society.
  • Content: Do you have news to share at our meeting? Is there a fellowship at your institution, a new initiative that your metadata peers might be excited about, or a cataloging panel you’re involved in at the conference? Let us know!
    OR, can you make a mini-presentation? Mini-presentations are brief (5 minutes or so) and informal and can be about any topic related to cataloging and metadata. Describe something unusual you’ve cataloged, or provide an update about how a project is going. Share your cataloging stories, successes, and challenges! Send a brief description and please include any media/A/V needs.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you, and seeing you in Salt Lake City!
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Developing session proposals for 2019

Team: Please join us in tossing around some ideas for cataloging sessions at the 2019 conference!  What would you like to learn from your many and multi-talented colleagues? What talents might you be willing to share with the group? To facilitate developing ideas for sessions, we’ve pre-populated a forum with some of the threads that came up at the NYC Section Meeting, along with others suggested by the Salt Lake City Conference Planning brainstorming group. Feel free to make comments on these, or to propose additional topics. You can also up-vote the topics that interest you the most.

  • Where: tricider forum.
  • When: Please contribute feedback by 5p Wednesday May 16.

Thanks!

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2018 ARLIS/NA Cataloging Section Meeting Recap

On Monday, February 26 at 11:15 AM, the Cataloging Section met for its annual meeting in the Madison room at the Midtown Hilton. Attendance was high, with at least 40 members in the room.

The meeting had a full agenda, beginning with the introduction of Emily Walz, Librarian in the Art & Architecture Collection at the New York Public Library, as the section’s new moderator. Adam Robinson, Cataloging and Metadata Services Librarian at the Phildelphia Museum of Art, was introduced as the new Vice Moderator/Moderator Elect.

Andrea Puccio from the Clark Art Library announced an opening for a paid 1-2 year fellowship position in her library. Maria Oldal from the Morgan Library made an announcement about a session taking place later in the conference about ARTFRAME.

Numerous section members gave reports and updates from various committees: Karen Stafford briefed the group on the ALA Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access, John Maier reported on the MARC Advisory Committee, Sherman Clarke gave an update on the activities of the ALA Subject Analysis Committee and the LCGFT (Library of Congress Genre Form Terms) Art Project, Bronwen Bitetti had  report from ARLIS/NA’s own Cataloging Advisory Committee, and Marie-Chantal L’Ecuyer-Coelho presented on ARTFRAME.

After updates, Kelly Swikard, Resource Description Librarian at the Decker Library at the Maryland Institute College of Art, gave two mini-presentations: The Ties that Bind Books: Adding Creator Characteristics and Binding Fields to Artist Book Records and Cataloging in RDA for Art Exhibition Publications: A Practical Handout. The handouts will be posted on Catablog soon.

Discussion was then opened up to the group. Moderator Emily Walz gave an update about the Section’s blog, Catablog (catablogweb.wordpress.com). The blog was launched in late 2017, thanks to the efforts of outgoing moderator Chantal Sulkow. There was discussion about what the group would like to get out of the blog, and how to unify content the Section might find interesting or useful from multiple sources. The group was responsive to the idea of collaborating with other cataloging and metadata groups both within and outside of ARLIS/NA for generating content for the blog and developing future conference sessions. The group generated many ideas for future conference sessions they would like to see.

Thank you to everyone who attended this year’s meeting! It was a great group!

Thoughts or ideas about future conference sessions you’d like to see? What would you like to see discussed on Catablog? Tell us in the comments, or use the “Contact” link to send us a message!