Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The borderless world of cataloging/cataloguing

Out of the last 20 visitors to my blog, only 6 were from the United States.
Hello and thank you, international people.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

MARC21 Record for a Hiccup

001 0001
003 gatl
005 200910271651
040 ## $agatl
043 ## $an-us-ga
045 0# $ay109 $b2009102716
082 04 $a612.26’02’758’152’05
100 1# $aDeGrasse, Suzanne. $d1970-
130 2# $aA Hiccup[realia] $f2009. $gSingultus.
180 ## $xSingultus
240 12 $aA Hiccup $f2009. $gSingultus.
245 12 $aA Hiccup. $cSuzanne DeGrasse $fOctober 27,   2009, 10:00:01-10:00:03
246 11 $aA Hiccough
300 ## $aOne Second. $b12dB
520 ## $aA single hiccup issued forth suddenly by a haywire electrical impulse directed at the diaphragm of Suzanne DeGrasse at 16:51 on October 27, 2009, in Madison County, Georgia.
650 #0 $aHiccups. $vRealia $zMadison County, Georgia
650 #0 $y2009
656 #7 $aArchivist.$2dot.
680 ## $iA single hiccup issued forth suddenly by a haywire electrical impulse directed at the diaphragm accompanied by a sharp intake of air which creates a glottal sound characterized by the phoneme "hic".

(please notice the use of 656)
(n.b. record may be incorrect, do not quote me unless it is verified)

Monday, October 26, 2009

So, what IS the difference between AACR2, RDA, DDC, LC, FRBR, CCO and MARC? (and we're adding in ICP and CDWA-Lite)

Guidelines for Cataloging:

with structures such as:

Controlled Vocabulary
Establishment of Authority and subsets
Some form of linking data
Established Relationships between data
Widespread use across borders and fields of study
keywords:

is represented by:
CCO for art, music, museum-housed items
AACR2 for text, recorded materials, and sometimes realia
RDA, which is what AACR3 turned into
Dublin Core (metadata terms, not specific items)
ICP and
maybe
FRBR,(and FRANAR and FRASAD and ...) the rules for RDA

Guidelines for Shelving:

with structures such as:

numerical representation
alphabetical representation
divisions by subject, location, time period, other specifics
keywords:

is represented by:

DDC
LCC

Guidelines for Syncing Bibliographic Data with Electronic Resources:

with structures such as:

Binary or numerical representation of order and placement
Structured syntax
Proscribed punctuation 
keywords: metadata, framework, data sets, metadata element set, interoperability


is represented by:

MARC
CDWA-Lite (Categories for the Descriptions of Works of Art)
MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)