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Cataloging in digital age
Li SunAsian Languages Cataloger
Metadata LibrarianCataloging and Metadata Services
Rutgers University Libraries
CEAL Annual Conference, March 25, 2009, Chicago
Digital initiatives are everywhere
• Changes in library users’ behavior
– Increasing reliance on digital resources (e.g., article databases, e-
journals, etc.)
– Decreasing usage of library physical collection (e.g., library visitor and
circulation numbers)
– Preference on virtual reference through live-chat, email, etc.
– Utilizing digital libraries and repositories
• Changes in library services
– Purpose (1): to respond to users’ needs
– Purpose (2): to lead changes
– Coverage: in almost everywhere in library services, for example, in
cataloging, collection development, reference, etc.
– Consequences: more on digital
Digitization projects 99%
Institutional repositories 36%
Web content management 28%
Datasets 23%
Subject-based repositories 18%(Jin Ma, Metadata in ARL Libraries, ALA Midwinter Presentation 2009, Denver)
Other popular digital initiatives
Metadata registries
Digital media resources
EAD finding aids
E-books and e-journals
Electronic theses and dissertations
Other
Digital initiatives in libraries
Major types of digital resources
(Jin Ma, Metadata in ARL Libraries, ALA Midwinter Presentation 2009, Denver)
Libraries’ responses to digital trends
• Increasing involvement in cataloging metadata by catalogers
– 66% librarians believed that catalogers created both MARC and
non-MARC metadata
– 79% librarians believed that creating non-MARC metadata has
been part of their routine jobAyers, Leighann, et al., What We’ve Learned from the RLG Partners Metadata Creation Workflows Survey, OCLC
Research Report (January 2009)
• Resulting in the change of job titles
– Position titles
– Department names
– Changed responsibilities
Challenges in digital shifts in cataloging
• Organizational Structure
– Library infrastructure
– Traditional vs. non-traditional work
• Personal attitude
– Old generations of catalogers
• Knowledge, skills, and training
• Team work
– Collaborations with other library teams
– Collaborations with external organizations
• Applications
– Lack of universal platforms (like OCLC for traditional cataloging)
Introduction to OpenWMS (Workflow Management System)
• We need a good application that can handle digital cataloging
• Current existing applications are mostly locally developed
• This Rutgers product is unique for its extended functionality for
digital cataloging with
– metadata creation and management tool
– a complete metadata creation system for analog and
digital materials
– Unicode compliant
– full METS support
– exporting digital object in METS/XML Wrapper
More on OpenWMS (Workflow Management System)
– Web accessibility
– Platform independent
– Can be either standalone application or integrated with
other systems or repositories
– Mapping and batch-loading metadata and digital files from
standard and in-house formats
– Ability to customize and add vocabularies to data elements
– Grant based project
– Open source for free download and easy customization
https://lefty64.scc-net.rutgers.edu/openwms/test/dwms_aa/aa/index.php?client_portal=
The look of OpenWMS
Rutgers Repository Workflow
repository
OpenWMS Function: administration
OpenWMS Function: utility configuration
OpenWMS Function: set up templates
OpenWMS Function: metadata creation and file handling
OpenWMS Function: Vocabularies control
OpenWMS Function: mapping and batch-loading
OpenWMS Function: Structure map
OpenWMS Function: ingest metadata/digital files to repository or edit metadata in repository
A final product of image
Demonstration of a digital East Asian Collection
http://lefty64.scc-net.rutgers.edu/rucore/search/index.php?PProfile=DLR
Thank you
Here is more information about OpenWMS
http://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/open/projects/openwms/index.php