PCC ISNI Pilot: Paving the Way for an Identity Management Track in the Program for Cooperative Cataloging
(Note the title is the same as the 2018 NETSL conference but the content in the later slides is different)
2018 NELA Annual Conference; New England Library Association (NELA), Oct. 2018, Warwick, RI
Presenters
- Jeanette Norris, Brown
- Amy Armitage, Harvard
Slides
PCC ISNI Pilot: Souvenirs from ISNIland: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IiN9WxXVfoYSEe1SXJsyKs4auF2ACregsP8zTKh2E9o/edit?usp=sharing
PCC ISNI Pilot: Experiments in Identity Management
LITA/ALCTS Authority Control Interest Group at ALA Annual 2018, June 24, 2018, New Orleans, LA
Description
As cataloging and metadata librarians look ahead to authority control practices incorporating creation of Identifiers as an essential component of the work, the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) has engaged in a Pilot membership with the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI). Thirteen PCC institutions collaborated on using ISNI tools to manage and create ISNIs for persons and organizations, including exploring use of ISNI database API functions and mapping between the ISNI XML schema and MARC21 to make ISNI batch processing more accessible to libraries. This panel will report on their activities as part of the Pilot and discuss lessons learned in their experiences.
Presenters
- Peter Fletcher, UCLA Library
- Iman Dagher, UCLA Library
- Chris Long, University of Colorado Boulder
- Lucas Mak, Michigan State University Libraries
From Strings to Things: Transitioning from Authority Control to Identity Management at Stanford University Libraries
Poster Presented at the California Academic & Research Libraries 2018 Conference, April 13-15, 2018, Redwood City, California
Joanna Dyla, Head, Metadata Development Unit, Stanford University
Hilary Thorsen, Metadata Librarian for Humanities, Stanford University
Abstract
The cataloging community has arrived at a pivotal time of transition from traditional authority control to identity management. Originally, authority control relied on text strings to differentiate names and direct users to their authorized forms. However, with the rise of Linked Data, URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) can fulfill the role of entity differentiation aiding in needed disambiguation. The transition comes at a time when the PCC (Program for Cooperative Cataloging) was already looking for ways to make NACO (Name Authority Cooperative Program) more inclusive to institutions who wanted to contribute, but did not have the resources to meet the program’s rigorous requirements. To involve more organizations, the PCC and the ISNI International Agency decided to establish a PCC umbrella membership in ISNI to be available to PCC members as a part of its cooperative programs.
The PCC embarked on a yearlong pilot project with ISNI to experiment with ways to reduce the burden on member institutions as they include ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) creation in their metadata workflows and investigate use cases. Professional catalogers and non-catalogers in the Metadata Department at Stanford University Libraries have been participating in the project by creating ISNIs for persons in three categories not under authority control in our discovery environments--authors and advisors of electronic theses and creators of electronic games.
We surveyed participants shortly after the pilot began to gain a preliminary assessment of how effective the training materials were, how much time participants spent creating ISNIs, and their overall feedback about the process. Participants’ responses indicated that the available training materials were adequate for self-instruction regardless of cataloging experience, but enhancements to the web interface, tools, and overall database maintenance would be needed to increase efficiency of ISNI creation in comparison to NACO. Participants envisioned creating ISNIs in the future for digital collections with large batches of names and for names that do not qualify for NACO.
PDF of poster https://stanford.box.com/s/khvyjkt6xjj727v0ovjlc6mgnitrnhc6
PCC ISNI Pilot public wiki https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/PCCISNI/PCC+ISNI+Pilot+Home
ISNI website http://www.isni.org/
•ISNI search http://www.isni.org/search
Library of Congress
•Online catalog https://catalog.loc.gov/
•Authorities http://authorities.loc.gov/
WorldCat Identities search http://www.worldcat.org/identities/
“NACO Lite” and the PCC ISNI Pilot: Presentation to UCLA catalogers
April 3, 2018
The Advisory Committee on Cataloging/Metadata-All Catalogers meeting
Presenter
John Riemer, Head, UCLA Library Cataloging & Metadata Center
Description
The presentation to UCLA catalogers is based largely on an opinion column recently written for Technicalities newsletter “Unpacking the Meaning of ‘NACO Lite’.” (2018). It also contains some reflections on UCLA’s participation in the PCC-ISNI Pilot and a preview of an upcoming question set from the OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus Group. All the content relates to the transition of authority work from an authority control focus to identity management.
Slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WeQ1FhEj_0szvC5G_tcE_Gs_RZl_k_dczqqp_YbVKJc/edit?usp=sharing
PCC ISNI Pilot: Paving the Way for an Identity Management Track in the Program for Cooperative Cataloging
2018 NETSL Annual Spring Conference: New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL), April 2, 2018
Description
Full description: As library catalogers look ahead to linked data changing descriptive practices, we will need tools, training and guidelines to help them transition from traditional authority control to creating and using globally shared identifiers. The Program for Cooperative Cataloging has been for decades a key source of leadership, policy, training and documentation to guide library cataloging practices. The PCC's ISNI Pilot continues that history by joining twelve early-adopter libraries with the work of several PCC Standing Committees and Task Groups to create a pathway for the library community to engage in Identity Management with ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier). In this panel presentation, metadata practitioners from Brown and Harvard will discuss differences between identity management and traditional authority work, describing challenges as well as experiences some call liberating! Come to hear about lessons learned so far in the ISNI Pilot, steps being taken to generalize benefits from the Pilot, the difference and complementary nature of ISNI and ORCID, and how the work of the PCC ISNI Pilot hopes to create a pathway for libraries' broad involvement in creation and management of ISNI identifiers for persons and organizations, connecting our work to metadata from other expert communities on the web.
Shorter description: A panel of metadata practitioners from Brown and Harvard discuss their experiences in PCC’s ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) Pilot and the transition from traditional name authority work to identity management.
Presenters
- Amy Armitage, Harvard
- Mary Jane Cuneo, Harvard
- Jeanette Norris, Brown
- Karen Carlson Young, Harvard
Slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1p6yJfxdw-txQL1G13RjeUXL2IU5w2MHo1ENMiICHGZQ/edit?usp=sharing
Presentation to University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Faculty and Staff
October 12, 2017
Description
Brief presentation given to a general audience of CU Boulder librarians and staff at the outset of our project.
