{"title":"Implementation and Maintenance of FAST as Linked Data in a Digital Collections Platform at University of Victoria Libraries","authors":"Dean Seeman, Tiffany Chan, Karen C. Dykes","doi":"10.1080/01639374.2023.2204309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2023.2204309","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract University of Victoria Libraries has implemented faceted vocabularies, particularly FAST, in its digital collections platform (Vault). The process involved migrating a variety of standardized (pre-coordinated Library of Congress subject headings) and non-standardized metadata to conform to a URI-centric metadata application profile. The authors argue that faceted vocabularies and FAST have helped to create a robust and intuitive user navigation in the platform and allowed for an efficient and straightforward metadata creation process. Maintaining FAST as linked data within Vault has required putting in place some technical processes to keep URIs and textual labels up to date and solutions (FAST Updater) have been locally developed.","PeriodicalId":45054,"journal":{"name":"Cataloging & Classification Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"535 - 557"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49618854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Orbis Cascade Alliance’s Migration of Faceted Vocabularies to Primo VE","authors":"Junghae Lee, B. Galbreath","doi":"10.1080/01639374.2023.2197897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2023.2197897","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract There has been a continued effort among cataloging communities to implement new fields and subfields in MARC 21 to support more structured data that benefit end users. In the current article, we describe how the Orbis Cascade Alliance integrated fields and subfields of this type into Primo VE, in order to provide faceted vocabularies and other facets within the discovery interface that were otherwise unavailable from the vendor. We discuss challenges in migrating the normalization rules behind the facets, the extent to which they are being utilized by member institutions, and possible next steps for promoting their use more extensively.","PeriodicalId":45054,"journal":{"name":"Cataloging & Classification Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"686 - 707"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47646450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creator Name Standardization Using Faceted Vocabularies in the BTAA Geoportal","authors":"L. McElfresh","doi":"10.1080/01639374.2023.2200430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2023.2200430","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Digital libraries incorporate metadata from varied sources, ranging from traditional catalog data to author-supplied descriptions. The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Geoportal unites geospatial resources from the libraries of the BTAA, compounding the variability of metadata. The BTAA Geospatial Information Network’s (BTAA GIN) Metadata Committee works to ensure completeness and consistency of metadata in the Geoportal, including a project to standardize the contents of the Creator field. The project comprises an OpenRefine data cleaning phase; evaluation of controlled vocabularies for semiautomated matching via OpenRefine reconciliation; and development and testing of a best practices guide for application of a controlled vocabulary.","PeriodicalId":45054,"journal":{"name":"Cataloging & Classification Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"605 - 625"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47539590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brenna Bychowski, Ryan Hildebrand, Sarah Hoover, Lauren Reno
{"title":"Describing Special Collections: Two Projects to Modernize the RBMS Controlled Vocabularies","authors":"Brenna Bychowski, Ryan Hildebrand, Sarah Hoover, Lauren Reno","doi":"10.1080/01639374.2023.2193950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2023.2193950","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper explores the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) Controlled Vocabularies (RBMS CV) and their successor, the RBMS Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging (RBMS CVRMC), both developed and maintained by the Rare Book and Manuscript Section of ALA/ACRL. These resources provide genre/form terms for use in special collections cataloging. Following a brief history of the development of the RBMS CV, this paper focuses on two projects: the creation of the integrated and linked data-compliant RBMS CVRMC and the revision and expansion of the thesaurus’ terms for prejudicial materials. We offer this as a case study of a community-created cataloging resource.","PeriodicalId":45054,"journal":{"name":"Cataloging & Classification Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"626 - 645"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46370787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementation of FAST in Two Digital Repositories: Breaking Silos, Unifying Subject Practices","authors":"J. Nicholson, Savannah Lake","doi":"10.1080/01639374.2023.2193572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2023.2193572","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study traces evolving approaches to the use of the FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) in digital repositories at Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where changes in staffing, the launch of an institutional repository, and efforts to address problematic language in metadata have necessitated a shift from an in-depth indexing approach to FAST to a lightweight “tagging” model more suited to present-day metadata needs. Despite the subject schema’s apparent simplicity, Atkins’ experience with FAST has shown that it still requires significant time, effort, and experimentation in order to deploy it to best effect.","PeriodicalId":45054,"journal":{"name":"Cataloging & Classification Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"558 - 578"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43189043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Problems and Possibilities for NACO Armed Forces Access Points: The Cases of Serbia and Yugoslavia","authors":"Mark H. Danley","doi":"10.1080/01639374.2023.2189897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2023.2189897","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Creating NACO name authority records for Serbian and Yugoslav armed forces at the national level (Resource Description and Access (RDA) 11.2.2.22.1) exposes how cataloging codes often embody assumptions of particular cultural and national traditions. Catalogers may spend as much effort in authority work parsing the rules as simply identifying corporate bodies. Solutions depend upon cataloger judgment sometimes based upon research. In some cases identity management approaches might offer advantages over an authority control approach to organizing information resources about the armed forces in question. Even so, information organizers would likely still have to account for the particular historical circumstances of the corporate bodies involved.","PeriodicalId":45054,"journal":{"name":"Cataloging & Classification Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"119 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48623495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classification of Classifications: Species of Library Classifications","authors":"M. Krishnamurthy, M. Satija, D. Martínez-Ávila","doi":"10.1080/01639374.2023.2209068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2023.2209068","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Acknowledging the importance of classification not only for library and information science but also for the study and mapping of the world phenomena, in this paper we revisit and systematize the main types of classifications and focus on the species of classification mainly drawing on the work of S. R. Ranganathan. We trace the evolution of library classification systems by their structures and modes of design of various shades of classification systems and make a comparative study of enumerative and faceted species of library classifications. The value of this paper is to have a picture of the whole spectrum of existing classifications, which may serve for the study of future developments and constructions of new systems. This paper updates previous works by Comaromi and Ranganathan and is also theoretically inspired by them.","PeriodicalId":45054,"journal":{"name":"Cataloging & Classification Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"228 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47179702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NOT A BOOK: Goodreads and the Risks of Social Cataloging with Insufficient Direction","authors":"Hannah Oudenaar, J. Bullard","doi":"10.1080/01639374.2023.2207189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2023.2207189","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Social cataloging websites, such as Goodreads, LibraryThing, and StoryGraph are widely popular with individuals who want to track their reading and read reviews. Goodreads is one of the most popular sites with 90 million registered users as of 2019. This paper studies a Goodreads cataloging rule, NOT A BOOK (NAB), through which users designate items as invalid to the site’s scope while preserving some of their metadata. By reviewing NAB, we identify thirteen types of invalid items. We go on to discuss how these item types unevenly reflect the rule itself and the emergence of a “non-book” sense through social cataloging.","PeriodicalId":45054,"journal":{"name":"Cataloging & Classification Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"203 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42518609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cataloging Virtual Reality Programs: Making the Future Searchable","authors":"Joy DuBose","doi":"10.1080/01639374.2023.2197899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2023.2197899","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While virtual reality (VR) programs are not new, only in recent years have libraries made these systems available for their patrons. Along with the VR systems, more and more programs are being released. These programs range from educational to entertainment. This paper discusses a project created at Mississippi State University Libraries to catalog their purchased VR programs and make them searchable to students and researchers via the OPAC.","PeriodicalId":45054,"journal":{"name":"Cataloging & Classification Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"189 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48181252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploration of Subject and Genre Representation in Bibliographic Metadata Representing Works of Fiction for Children and Young Adults","authors":"Vyacheslav Zavalin","doi":"10.1080/01639374.2023.2175403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2023.2175403","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examines subject and genre representation in metadata that describes information resources created for children and young adult audiences. Both quantitative and limited qualitative analyses were applied to the analysis of WorldCat records collected in 2021 and contributed by the Children’s and Young Adults’ Cataloging Program at the US Library of Congress. This dataset contains records created several years prior to the data collection point and edited by various OCLC member institutions. Findings provide information on the level and patterns of application of these kinds of metadata important for information access, with a focus on the fields, subfields, and controlled vocabularies used. The discussion of results includes a detailed evaluation of genre and subject metadata quality (accuracy, completeness, and consistency).","PeriodicalId":45054,"journal":{"name":"Cataloging & Classification Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"47 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45546946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}