A presentation delivered by Skype as part of a cataloguing training course for the National Library of Israel on 27 December 2012

1. www.twitter.com/schambers3
www.slideshare.net/schambers3
Catalog(uing) 2.0:
is there a future for the library catalogue?
A presentation by Sally Chambers
for the National Library of Israel

2. Overvie
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• Who am I?
• Changing nature of the library catalogue
• Catalysts for cataloguing change
• Must MARC die?
• Linked data and libraries
• Does the library catalogue have a future?

3. Who am I?
• (Digital) Librarian (Humanist)
• 1995 – 2004: Worked in academic libraries in
the UK (Nottingham, London)
• 2005 – 2011: Worked for The European Library,
at the National Library of the Netherlands
• 2011 – present: Work for DARIAH-EU at the
Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities,
Germany

4. Changing nature of the library catalogue

5. Traditional cataloguing tools: AACR2
www.aacr2.org

6. Traditional cataloguing tools: MARC 21
www.loc.gov/marc

7. Traditional Cataloguing tools: ISBD
www.ifla.org/publications/international-
standard-bibliographic-description

8. Discussion point?
Are traditional cataloguing tools still fit
for purpose?

9. Catalysts for cataloguing change?

10. Catalysts for cataloguing change?
www.ifla.org/publications/functional-
requirements-for-bibliographic-records

11. Catalysts for cataloguing change?
www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/ and
www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/lcwg-ontherecord-
jan08-final.pdf

12. Catalysts for cataloguing change?
www.ifla.org/publications/statement-of-international-
cataloguing-principles

13. Catalysts for cataloguing change?
www.loc.gov/aba/rda/

14. Catalysts for cataloguing change?
www.rdatoolkit.org and access.rdatoolkit.org

15. Catalysts for cataloguing change?
www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/source/rdatesting-
finalreport-20june2011.pdf

16. Catalysts for cataloguing change?
www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/news_rda_impleme
ntation_date.html

17. Catalysts for cataloguing change?
http://www.slainte.org.uk/eurig/docs/EURIG_Survey_2012_v
1_Final.pdf

18. Catalysts for cataloguing change?
www.loc.gov/marc/transition

19. Catalysts for cataloguing change?
www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/

20. Discussion point?
Will RDA become the cataloguing
standard for the 21st Century in Israel?

21. Traditional cataloguing tools: MARC 21
www.loc.gov/marc

22. ELAG 2011
MARC must
die?
www.slideshare.net/schambers3/marc-must-die
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/hes_watching_you/images_html/wanted_for_murder.html

23. MARC must die?
Bibliographic References:
• MARC Project Final Report (1968)
• @rtennant MARC must die (2002)
• @lukask Who needs MARC? (2009)
• Karen Coyle Metadata Mix and Match (2009)
• Jason Thomale Intepreting MARC (2010)
• Understanding MARC tutorial
• LoC Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
(May 2011)

24. MARC must die?
A new globally accepted data model
http://www.mkbergman.com/wp-
content/themes/ai3/images/2009Posts/090628_data_model_relationships.png

25. Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
www.loc.gov/marc/transition

26. Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
http://listserv.loc.gov/listarch/bibframe.html

27. Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
www.loc.gov/marc/transition/pdf/bibframewo
rk-10312011.pdf

28. Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
www.loc.gov/marc/transition/pdf/marcld-
report-11-21-2012.pdf

29. Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
www.loc.gov/marc/transition/pdf/marcld-
report-11-21-2012.pdf

30. BIBFRAME data model
www.loc.gov/marc/transition/pdf/marcld-
report-11-21-2012.pdf

31. BIBFRAME
data model
www.loc.gov/marc/transition/pdf/marcld-report-11-21-2012.pdf

32. Discussion point?
Will BIBFRAME replace MARC 21? If so,
how long might it take?

33. W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group
www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/

34. IFLA Semantic Web Special Interest Group
http://www.ifla.org/swsig

35. British Library and Linked Data
www.bl.uk/bibliographic/datafree.html

36. igelu: Manifesto for Open Linked Data
http://igelu.org/special-interests/lod/manifesto

37. Library of Congress Library Linked Data service
http://id.loc.gov/

38. Europeana Data Model (EDM) for Libraries?
www.europeana-
libraries.eu/documents/868553/1eade085-34ac-487f-
82af-d5cd2545e619
http://pro.europeana.eu/docum
ents/900548/978614/Europeana
+Libraries+and+EDM

39. Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB 2012)
http://swib.org/swib12/programme.php

40. Library Linked Data fun…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYVG2FY0UVI

41. Discussion point?
How does linked data fit into the future
of library cataloguing?

42. Suggested reading
www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=7166

43. Suggested reading
www.educause.edu/ero/article/thirteen-ways-looking-
libraries-discovery-and-catalog-scale-workflow-attention

44. Suggested reading
www.worldcat.org/oclc/804815706

45. Suggested reading
www.worldcat.org/oclc/792740684

46. Suggested reading
www.worldcat.org/oclc/699487855

47. Discussion point?
Does the library catalogue have a
future?

48. Seeing Standards: A visualisation of the
metadata universe by Jenn Riley
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/

49. Image Credits
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