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ALCTS Networked Resources and Metadata Committee (NRMC)

2001 ALA Annual Conference Meetings
MINUTES
June 15 and 17, 2001



Friday, June 15, 2001
2:00–4:00 p.m. MAR (Marriott Hotel), Golden Gate A3


  1. Opening announcements:
    Wayne Jones and John Attig are leaving the NRMC after the current meeting. Steve Miller will be the new intern. Names for other new members have not yet been released.

    Minutes of the last minutes approved with minor revisions.

  2. Report on the NRMC program for Sunday June 17, 2001 (Janet Carter).
    Stu Weibel will be the moderator. The four speakers will be asked to submit their presentations; a note-taker will be assigned for each speaker. If the presentations are not available, then summaries will be posted. Assignments include: Carter (Arms); Woodley (Lynch); Jones (McCallum); Klair (Sherman).

  3. Programs for 2002 and beyond (Judith Ahronheim; Mary Woodley)
    Judith Ahronheim has submitted a proposal for a program for Annual 2002 in Atlanta: Fish, Frogs, and Photos.
    Mary Woodley reported that Mary Larsgaard and Sally Tseng are planning another 2-day pre-conference for Toronto and they offered a co-sponsorship for the program. The committee voted affirmatively.

  4. NRMC web page Taskforce report (Wayne Jones)
    John needs to step down as Web Master and Wayne will be leaving the committee. However, the Taskforce will support the creation of new pages. The TF will markup documents and submit them to John for loading. It was suggested that we investigate adding a search engine to search only the NRMC web pages and to keep track of statistics. Metadata tags should be added to each Web page.

  5. PCC request (Ann Caldwell, Karen Calhoun)
    The PCC is considering establishing a clearinghouse for metadata standards/applications in libraries; the NRMC would like to collaborate.
    • Standards Committee for ALCTS
      1. Standards Committee role is to notify new standards to libraries; server as a point of contact within ALCTS; provide a representative to NISO; are there other avenues, e.g. ITF?
      2. Other ALCTS groups do not have an official subcommittee or taskforce that directly focuses on standards
      3. No cross-pollination between ALCTS committees or no clear path of voting membership; CC:DA is often requested to review
      4. Carlen Rusha and Beecher Wiggins are discussing action plans
      5. Need a framework to point to standards, Best Practices, articles, and applications.
      6. Dublin Core General report on library application of Dublin Core
      7. Karen Calhoun will go back to PCC and will liaison. She will contact Mary Woodley

  6. Notification Procedures (A. Klair)
    Not much as been done; Announced on NISO listserv/DC general/AN2; sent to the ALCTS listserv; committee sends to Arlene to send to AN2.

  7. CC:DA report (John Attig for Ann Sanberg-Fox)
    1. Cataloging rules for Electronic Resources (Chapter 9 and a section of Chapter 12) are completed. Rules for Chapter 9 have been sent to the publisher. The April meeting of JSC raised a few issues with Chapter 12 but it should be finalized by October. Looking at a Spring 2002 publication.
    2. Drafts from the TF for the Appendix for Major and Minor Changes still be written
    3. New Taskforce reviewing ONIX International.

  8. MARBI (J. Attig)
    1. Dates: mapping Dublin Core dates, there are no good equivalents in MARC; proposing to use the 046 to record
    2. Tweaking holdings fields
    3. Discussions have begun on international authority records; multi-lingual authority records
    4. Discussions on how to implement East Asian character sets using UNICODE
    5. Seriality and Chapter 12, investigating the feasibility of repeating the 260; fixed field code for integrating resources
    6. 887: for non-MARC source of information

Sunday, June 17, 2001
9:30–11:00 a.m. MCC (Moscone Convention Center), Room 300
  1. Introductions: Bill Fietzer welcomed members and guests

  2. Bill reminded everyone about the committee's program

  3. Judy Ahronheim spoke about the 2002 program: Fish, ?????, and Photos: Librarians as metadata collaborators.
    This will be about non-library metadata and non-library objects; she is looking for people to help and speakers.

  4. Toronto Meeting.
     We have been approached by Mary Laarsgaard and Sally Tseng to work on a metadata Institute for the 2003 Toronto meeting. They need 5-7 people to develop the theme, get speakers, coordinate various aspects of the meeting, and work with ALCTS. They don't want to repeat the 2000 meeting.

  5. ALCTS Task Force on Metadata: areas for further exploration.
     There was a request for clarification: what did NRMC want to do with the recommendations from the paper? Presentations? White papers? Shoul this be pursued? The report specifically names NRMC. Interfacing: Recommendation no. 4 of report ties in with an LC bicentennial report recommendation. Are other groups doing this? Should a charge be developed? Arlene, Mary, and Wayne have already done some work on this. Bill will develop charges for each group. We need to take smaller chunks; white papers/situation reports could be posted on the web site and listserv. There are lots of smaller issues embedded in what we're talking about.


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