Catalogue. Discuss

Maryann KempthorneMarch 2013

Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative

• Partitioned from the ‘rest of the cataloguing updates’ in October 2011

• Released from LOC in November 2012• Go Live in 24 months and some modelling tools

out now. This change might be FAST• Coders are skeptical but lack alternatives• Time to accept XML/RDF as a bridge to the

semantic web?• The push to be post-MARC

Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative

• Visit bibframe.org• Learn about the participants: LOC, British

Library, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, ‘LAC’• Strong community participation in the UK and

Scandinavia – the Finland Card!• End of life for the ILS as a stuff catalogue, shift

to Identity management system?

• Changes in Model, Groups 1, 2, 3• Changes in fine detail, e.g. punctuation• End of the GMD, replace w. 33x• Wiki policy space in the toolkit

Co-Operative Cataloguer Tools• Birds of a Feather MARC for

Z39.50• MARC Edit for batch control• Vendor MARC or contractor• Cataloguing utilities for

MARC services– Bookwhere– Or Bibliofile– Or … OCLC

Open Discovery Initiative.. • From NISO, largely driven by

higher ed • Next generation catalogue… er

federated searching… • Uhm doesn’t it say DISCOVERY?• Anyway… a step away from

lipstick on a pig meaning:– Summon– EBSCO Discovery Service– Bibliocommons (which is really a

CMS)– Serial Solutions 360-ish Search

Next stop

• RDA?• BIBFRAME?• Open Discovery• Memory projects?

What does your library have in sight?

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