BCC00/SDC/4
Subcommittee on Descriptive Cataloging
2000 Annual Report
Members: Nancy Lorimer (Chair), Lew Bowling, Phil DeSellem
(deceased), Brad Eden, Grace
It was with great sadness that the
Subcommittee learned of the death of Phil DeSellem on July 29, 2000. Phil, who had been a music cataloger at LC for 7
years and Music and Sound Recordings Team II leader since April 1999, was appointed LC
representative to SDC at the Louisville meeting. His
knowledge, humor and easy manner will be sorely missed.
A new LC representative will be appointed before or at the New York meeting.
As MLA representative, Matthew Wise
attended meetings of the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access during ALA
conferences in San Antonio and Chicago. Topics
of discussion included: the JSC report of the Task Force on Rule 0.24; modifications to
the proposals of the ISBD(ER) Harmonization Task Force; a proposal to abbreviate both word
and "non-standard" abbreviations according to Appendix B (e.g. replacing vol.
with v. in series statements); and the joint MARBI/CC:DA meeting, in which D.R. Miller
(Stanford University) gave a presentation about MARC and XML formats. Also discussed was the Final Report from the Task
Force on ISBD(M) which was approved for submission to the IFLA Review Group. The final report included additional concerns
submitted by the MLA Bibliographic Control Committee (see below). Summaries of these meetings may be found in the
Music Cataloging Bulletin and at the BCC website.
During the open meeting of the
Subcommittee at Louisville, Nancy Lorimer spoke about the MLA/RBMS Joint Committee on
Early Printed Music, which has been charged with the preparation of a cataloging manual
for these materials. Chaired by Jain Fletcher
(UCLA), the Committee is composed of experts from the music library, rare book and
manuscript, and musicological communities. When
completed, the manual will be one of five which will comprise the new Descriptive
Cataloging of Rare Materials series (DCRM). The
other four manuals will treat books, manuscripts, cartographic materials, and serials.
David Day (Brigham Young University)
presented a paper entitled "Using Metadata in the Management of Music Special
Collections", in which he described the design and implementation of an automated
system which utilizes FileMaker Pro templates, an Oracle server, and a WebObjects
interface. The database includes components for simplified cataloging (performed by
student employees), authority control, bibliographic relationships (to related
publications and review), collection affiliation, preservation/digitization, rights
management, use transactions, and donor/patron information.
The metadata elements embedded in each of the digital documents, which were
developed in conjunction with BYU's online Digital Archive, are compatible with the Dublin
Core and IMS standards.
At the beginning of summer, the
subcommittee was charged with reviewing proposed changes to ISBD(M) on behalf of BCC. The subcommittee submitted a list of concerns,
developed by members and the MLA membership at large, about making other title information
and subsequent statements of responsibility optional.
Matthew Wise also submitted the report to CC:DA at the Midwinter Meeting. Several CC:DA members agreed with our
"concerns", which were then appended to the Task Force's report.
Submitted by Nancy Lorimer
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