2009 ALA Annual Conference

• Attended my last LRTS Editorial Board meeting.
• Attended the OCLC Developers Network Luncheon.
• Met with Patrick Hogan and Nannette Naught to discuss ways I might be able to contribute to the development of the RDA Online Toolkit during my sabbatical.

Attended From ONIX to MARC and back again: new metadata service options at OCLC (OCLC sponsored program)

Renee Register provided an update on OCLC’s next generation cataloging project. The main focus of the project over the past couple of years has been partnering with publishers to better utilize and share UNIX and MARC metadata in WorldCat and publisher database records. OCLC has now started enriching WorldCat records with ONIX data, look for the code OCLNG in the 040 field. NISO and OCLC published a white paper: “Streamlining book metadata workflow” on June 30, 2009, and it is now available on the NISO website. Metadata services for publishers was launched in July 2009, based on the success of the pilot project. http://publishers.oclc.org has links to additional information and research. Next steps: incorporate WorldCat identities, produce additional mapping between terminologies, refine FRBR algorithms, and continue to build collaboration between publishers and libraries. Areas for collaborative work include: best practices, optimization of identifiers, and optimization of subjects.

Kyle and I had dinner with Cyril Oberlander and Lorcan Dempsey at Kitty O’Sheas in the Chicago Hilton.

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