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With the November 2016 PCC Policy Committee 'agreement in principle' to seek a PCC umbrella membership in ISNI (original proposal that was endorsed), a PCC ISNI pilot has been proposed as the best way forward to explore the needs and issues that would arise for all parties (libraries, ISNI-IA and OCLC) when PCC metadata practitioners seek to incorporate ISNIs into their metadata workflows and pursue a wide range of ISNI use cases. The experience of having PCC metadata librarians working in ISNI would generate information for all parties to understand the characteristics (tools, services, workflows, training & documentation) necessary for a sustainable, affordable and effective long-range PCC membership agreement beyond the pilot.
Pilot Participation
Participation in the PCC ISNI pilot is being drawn from three segments of the PCC: institutional participants, PCC Standing Committee representatives (Applications / Standards / Training) and the PCC Identity Management in NACO Task Group. Institutional participants come from the following libraries: Brown, University of Chicago, University of Colorado-Boulder, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Michigan State, Stanford, Texas A&M, UC Davis , UCLA, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Standing Committee Involvement
These short term charges have been approved by PCC Steering and by the Standing Committees involved.
SCA Short Term Charge
Under the guidance of Michelle Durocher, the Standing Committee on Applications shall appoint a representative to participate in the PCC ISNI Pilot. SCA specifically will advise on creation and enhancement of ISNI tool sets and APIs, bulk and batch loading protocols, and production workflows as they affect PCC Libraries. SCA will work with the Pilot Libraries in developing a common PCC batch template and workflow processes agreeable to and coordinated with OCLC.
SCT Short Term Charge
Under the guidance of Michelle Durocher, the Standing Committee on Training shall appoint a representative to participate in the PCC ISNI Pilot. SCT specifically will document procedures and workflows for creating and maintaining ISNI records and prepare training in the use of ISNI tools and APIs. SCT will document use of the PCC Common batch template. Procedures will be written for both single record creation and batch processes. SCT will work with the Standing Committee on Standards on documenting best practices for ISNI records. SCT and SCS will provide guidance to PCC members on use cases for ISNI and its relationship to the NACO Program, the latter information arising in part from work underway now within the PCC Task Group on Identify Management in NACO.
SCA Short Term Charge
A similar charge will be developed for the Standing Committee on Standards; their involvement will be most critical at a later stage of the pilot after initial brainstorming and experimentation by the participants begins to distill best practice recommendations for consideration as PCC standards
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Commitments
The PCC pilot participants commit to working together such that our engagement presents the lowest possible overhead to our ISNI colleagues and their technical partner, OCLC. For example, the pilot group would designate a single point of contact for each functional area (practitioner training questions, tool-based technical questions, etc.) so that we ask questions in a coordinated and non-duplicative manner; the pilot participants would first ask questions to each other, in a train the trainer model, and then present only outstanding questions to ISNI, OCLC, or ISNI Quality Team members as appropriate. Answers would be documented so that the PCC would develop internal documentation and would share that documentation as would be helpful to others if desirable.
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Other use cases are also likely to be pursued during the PCC ISNI pilot; this list is not exhaustive.
Background on the PCC
The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) has a long history of commitment to creating, maintaining and sharing high quality metadata, as well as creating the professional context to train and support its members in working efficiently together in a coordinated manner as a unified community. While members work within their local institutional contexts, they adhere to a common set of best practices and policies when undertaking work under the PCC umbrella. They are highly trained and dedicated metadata professionals that work together to arrive at workflow best practices that result in minimizing duplicated effort and maximizing our ability to share metadata outputs and expertise in support of information discovery.