BCC2005/Auth/3

MLA liaison report to BCC from ALA Annual Meeting,
Chicago, June 2005
Submitted by Margaret Kaus
Online Audiovisual Catalogers/Cataloging Policy committee Meeting
Friday, June 24, 2005, from 7:30-9:30 pm

There was a short CAPC meeting with approximately 15 people attending. John Attig gave a very brief MARBI report and Greta de Groat gave a very brief CD:DA report. The complete minutes of the CAPC meeting should be posted on the OLAC/CAPC web site in the next few weeks at the following URL: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/capc/minutes.html

• Open meeting

Open meeting program titled “XML and Authority Control” consisted of six presentations. For a full overview of the presentations, see: http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litamembership/litaigs/authorityalcts/2005annual.htm

1. “MADS (Metadata Authority Description Schema), a MODS Companion” Sally H. McCallum, Chief, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress.
2. “XML for Authorities at NLM: the Groundwork for an Integrated Authority File” Diane Boehr, Head of Cataloging, National Library of Medicine.
3. “XML Name Access Control Repository at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library” Louisa Kwok, Head of Cataloging, HKUST Library.
4. “Organic Authorities: XOBIS and the Metamorphosis of Library Data” Kevin S. Clarke, Digital Projects Programmer, Firestone Library, Princeton University.
5. “Web Service Experiments with Authority Control” Thomas B. Hickey, Chief Scientist, OCLC.
6. “Hong Kong Chinese Authority (Name) Project: the HKCAN XML Version” Joanna Yi-hang Pong, Cataloguing Librarian, Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong.

Upcoming ACIG activities:

• Midwinter 2006--managed discussion of authority developments with reports from LC, OCLC, RLG, and authority vendors.
• Annual 2006--program on expanding and non-traditional approaches to authorities, including their use in archives, bi-lingual and e-commerce websites, the incorporation of folksonomies, and other developments.
• Anaclare Evans is continuing to prepare a retrospective authority control bibliography with the help of Wayne State students at the request of ACIG.

• Business meeting:

Authority Control in the Online Environment Interest Group (ACIG)
Sunday, June 26, 2005, 4:30-5:30pm

Of interest to the music community: Mark Scharff continues to serve as member-at-large for uniform titles. Marlena Frackowski was elected member-at-large for names. ACIG has petitioned to become an ALCTS interest group as well as a LITA interest group. The proposed program for the ALA Annual 2006: “Questioning authorities: expanded and non-traditional approaches to authority control.” Areas to explore would be archival and museum use of authorities, vernacular vs. Romanized authorities, e-commerce and website vocabulary control, and the incorporation of folksonomies into bibliographic access.

The complete minutes of the ACIG business meeting can be found at the following URL. http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litamembership/litaigs/authorityalcts/2005annualminutes.htm.

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