The Analysis and Access Section will together with the Knowledge Mangegement Section host an open session at WLIC 2020 in Dublin about AI & machine learning.
We have decided to extend the deadline for subissions to March 15 to get more proposals.
We hope to get more proposals that describe what is happening and not just plans about the future. AI will be part of the future in Libraries, but there is also things happening right now.
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The American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting and Conference took place in Philadelphia at the end of January. The weather was quite mild, especially compared to the last time the meeting was in Philadelphia when we had major snowfall.
As usual, I had a very full agenda. I represented the Cataloging in Publication Program at the LOC Pavilion in the exhibit hall. I also volunteered an hour at the IFLA Booth, where I had the chance to chat with Helen Mandl, Deputy Secretary General of IFLA. Our mission at the IFLA booth was to inform ALA attendees about the next IFLA WLIC in Dublin, Ireland, to promote the Library Map of the World, and to encourage libraries in the United States to submit Sustainable Development Goal Stories.
Helen Mandl and Caroline Saccucci at the IFLA booth
One of the most interesting sessions I attended, especially relevant to IFLA SC SAA, was a series of presentations on ethics in cataloging, particularly in the choice of subject headings assigned to a work. I attended some interesting meetings about transliteration and non-Latin scripts in bibliographic records. I also attended the LC BIBFRAME Update meeting to learn more about the LD4P2 Project. The ALCTS Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) met twice, Sunday morning and Monday afternoon, and as the LC Dewey Program Liaison to SAC, I attend those meetings as much as possible, although I was unable to attend the Sunday morning meeting due to a schedule conflict. The majority of the meetings focused on reports of the various subcommittees and reports from liaisons, such as the liaison from the Music Library Association and the American Law Library Association.
Dewey-related reports were on the Monday afternoon agenda. Violet Fox, OCLC Dewey Editor, gave the OCLC Dewey report, and I gave the report of the LC Dewey Program. Outgoing ALA appointee to the Dewey Editorial Policy Committee Deborah Rose-Lefmann gave her final report to SAC on EPC Meeting 142 held at the Library of Congress in September 2019. Daniel Joudrey, Ph.D., Professor in the School of Library and Information Science, Simmons University, and a current member of SAC, is the new ALA-appointee to EPC. Usually there is a program as part of the Monday afternoon SAC meeting, but no program was scheduled for this conference.
This was probably the last ALA Midwinter meeting that I will attend because ALA is changing the format of this conference. The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), the division in ALA with cataloging standards committees including SAC, has already determined that it will not meet at ALA Midwinter 2021. I guess the next time I visit Philly will be just for fun. It’s a good thing I had a Philly cheesesteak this time!
Caroline Saccucci.
CIP and Dewey Program Manager
Library of Congress
Cynthia Whitacre, Senior Metadata Operations Manager at OCLC and Carolince Saccucci in front of the Library of Congress “Ceremonial Office” at the LOC Pavilion in the exhibit hall.
2019 was an election year, and for the first time – at least to our knowledge – we had too many people wanting to join us and IFLA institutional members had to vote for two candidates.
From left: Jane Makke, Sally McCallum, Caroline Saccucci, Athena Salaba, Rehab Ouf, Harriet Aagaard, Drahomira Cupar (in front), Andreas Kempf, Elise Conradi, Aida Slavic, Ana Stevanovic, Chris Oliver, George Prager, Ulrike Junger.
Missing: Rosali Fenandez de Souza, Stanoslav Golubtsov, Jinxia Huang, Seung Jeong Kim, Jean Maury, Maria Stegaeva
Outgoing members 2019: John DeSantis, Mauro Guerrini and Elena Zagorskaya
On the photo below you also find our outgoing chair John DeSantis. From 2019 he is a new member of the Bibliography Section. The new chair of our section is Athena Salaba.
The Subject Analysis and Access Section had a successfull meeting at WLIC 2018 in Kuala Lumpur. Our open session on Automatic indexeing was attended by 110 persons. The papers are available at the IFLA Library. We also plan to publish their presentation slides.
From left to right: Jane Makke, Caroline Saccuci, Athena Salaba, John DeSantis, George Prager, Harriet Aagaard, Rehab Ouf, Elise Conradi, Sally McCallum, Jean Maury, Andreas Kempf, Chris Oliver, Ulrike Junger.
Member since 2017
Professor, School of Information, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
Work/ research experience: Cataloging & metadata, Knowledge organization systems (KOS), Conceptual modeling of bibliographic data
Areas of special interest: Subject access to information, User experience & user interaction with KOS, and bibliographic information
Email: asalaba @ kent.edu
Web: ischool.kent.edu
Personal web: athenasalaba.org
Elise ConradiMember since 2013
Head of Bibliographic Services
Biblioteksentralen AL
Oslo, Norway
Work/ research experience: Knowledge organization systems, Authority files (for works, persons, subjects), Linked Data
Areas of special interest: Open structured data (for example Linked Open Data), LRM, Machine Learning, Subject Access, Readers’ Advisory, Good books
Email: elise.conradi @ bibsent.no
Web: www.bibsent.no/
Member since 2013
Senior librarian/Classification expert
National Library of Sweden, Meta Data and Systems Support Departement
Stockholm, Sweden
Work/ research experience: Classification and Subject headings, Subject Access for librarians, for end users, Linked data
Areas of special interest: Dewey Decimal Classification, Classification systems, Linked Data, Transition from Marc21 to Linked Data, Bibframe, Automatic Indexing
Email: harriet.aagaard @ kb.se
Web: www.kb.se
Edgardo CivalleroCorresponding member since 2017
Library Director, Charles Darwin Research Station
Puerto Ayora, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Work/ research experience: : Consultant member of the Revision Advisory Committee of the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (2004-2010), associate editor and assistant editor (2010- 2012), and editor and translator of the UDC Summary (2012-).
Areas of special interest: Biases in classification schemes, classification and indigenous knowledge.
Email: [email protected]
Personal web: http://www.edgardocivallero.com/
Judy JengALA/ALCTS Subject Analysis Committee liaison since 2019
Community Representative
Digital Public Library of America, USA
Work/ research experience: Librarian at various universities, Faculty at various library schools, evaluation consultant of digital library
Areas of special interest: Cataloging and classification, digital library, usability evaluation.
Email: [email protected]
Andreas Oskar KempfMember since 2017
Research assistant
German National Library of Economics / Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. academic services
Hamburg, Germany
Work/ research experience: Development and management of knowledge organization systems (thesauri, classifications)
Areas of special interest: i) interoperability of KOS (mappings), ii) automatic indexing, iii) KOS for access to research data
Email: a.kempf @ zbw.eu
Web: http://www.zbw.eu/de/
Personal web: https://www.zbw.eu/en/about-us/profile/andreas-oskar-kempf/
Seung Jeong KimMember since 2017
Librarian
National Library of Korea, Bibliographic Control Division
Seoul, South Korea
Work/ research experience: Bibliographic Control
Areas of special interest: Bibframe
Email: Sjkim72 @ korea.kr
Web: www.nla.go.kr
Jane MakkeMember since 2017
Metadata coordinator
National Library of Estonia
Tallin, Estonia
Work/ research experience: Cataloguing standards; Authority control; training; RDA; FRBR
Areas of special interest: Cataloguing standards; Automation of workflows; Data quality; Usability of library metadata
Email: jane.makke @ nlib.ee
Web: https://www.nlib.ee/
Chris OliverMember since 2013
Head, Resource Description and Metadata Services, University of Ottawa Library
Resource Description and Metadata Services, University of Ottawa Library
Ottawa, Canada
Work/ research experience: Bibliographic conceptual models; implementation of models in cataloguing standards; RDA, Resource Description and Access; multilingual subject access; description, access and thesauri in bilingual user communities
Email: christine.oliver @ uottawa.ca
Web: http://biblio.uottawa.ca/en
George PragerMember since 2013
Head of Cataloging.
New York University Law School Library
New York, NY, USA
Work/ research experience: Law cataloging, working with colleagues to revise and update Library of Congress legal subject headings and classification, especially law of indigenous peoples; RDA; Guidelines for use of relationship designators (bibliographic and authority), trainer and/or reviewer for Program for Cooperative Cataloging for name and series authority records, as well as U.S. national level bibliographic records for monographs, serials, and integrating resources
Areas of special interest: Genre/form, Issues regarding law cataloging; training and standards for cataloging
Email: pragerg @ mercury.law.nyu.edu
Web: http://www.law.nyu.edu/library
Caroline SaccucciMember since 2017
CIP anc Dewey Program Manager
Library of Congress, U.S. Programs, Law, and Literature Division
Washington, D.C. USA
Work/ research experience: Working with pre-publication metadata
Areas of special interest: ONIX metadata, Mappings, Classification, CIP
email: csus @ loc.gov
Web: http://www.loc.gov/publish/cip/
Personal web: http://www.loc.gov/aba/dewey/
Maria StegaevaMember since 2017
Deputy Head, Assoc. Prof. Ph.D
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. Department of the Formation and Processing of Information Resources
St. Petersburg, Russia
Work/ research experience: 1996-2010 National Library of Russia, Processing & Cataloguing Department, Senior Researcher
• participation in the development of Russian exchange formats for bibliographic and authority data (RUSMARC), co-author of Russian Cataloguing Rules, cataloging all types of resources, participation in projects on corporate cataloguing, development of courses of lectures and seminars on machine-readable cataloging, development of guidelines for authority files and authority control 2003-2010 Higher Library Courses, National Library of Russia, Senior Lecturer
• cataloging all types of resources, authority files, and authority control
2003- present – St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, Library and Information Faculty, Senior Lecturer, since 2017 – Associate Professor
• computer library and information technology, linguistic support of library technologies
2010- present – Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, Department of the Formation and Processing of Information Resources, Deputy Head
• theoretical and practical issues of creating integrated digital resources and collections, subject access to digital content, coordination and standardization in the area of the digital libraries
Areas of special interest: Modern trends in theory and practice of indexing: enhancing subject access in digital libraries; strategy and policy for building digital collections; FR family of conceptual models (FRBR, FRAD, FRSAD) and consolidated FRBR-LRM model in library catalogues; National Subject Authority File development and maintenance; development of linguistic instruments for information retrieval in OPAC; Semantic Web technologies in libraries
Email: stegaeva @ prlib.ru
Web: https://www.prlib.ru/
Ana StevanovićMember since 2013
Librarian for catalogisation and classification
National Library of Serbia, Department of Serial Publication. Section for Component Parts Analysis
Belgrade, Serbia
Work/ research experience: From 2007-2011 I worked as a gymnasium teacher. Since 2011 I am working at the National Library of Serbia. Also, I am a Phd candidate at the Philological Faculty of Belgrade University – Department for Serbian Literature.
Areas of special interest: Subject analysis and classification. Genre/form.
Email: ana.stevanovic @ nb.rs
Web: https://www.nb.rs/
Section members and outgoing members present at WLIC 2017
At WLIC 2017 in Wrocław, Poland, we had both the sad task of saying good bye to outgoing members and the happy task of welcoming new members.
Outgoing members:
Maja Žumer, Sandy Roe, Lynn Howarth, Tiiu Tarkpea, Min Young Hwang, Ekaterina Zaytseva
We have a new chair: John DeSantis and a new secretary: Elise Conradi
New members:
Athena Salaba, Caroline Saccucci, Andreas Kempf, Junxia Huang, Jane Makke, Rosali Fernadez de Souza, Seung Jeong Kim, Jean Maury, Maira Stegaeva
Continuing members:
Harriet Aagaard, Mauro Guerrini, Sally McCallum, Christine Oliver, Rehab Ouf, George Prager, Aida Slavic, Ana Stevanovic, Elena Zagorskaya
Photo from our meeting in Columbus, Ohio at WLIC 2016. (From the left: Lynn Howarth, George Prager, Chris Oliver, Sally McCallum, John DeSantis, Rehab Ouf, Tiiu Tarkpea, Sandy Roe, Elise Conradi, Maja Žumer, Ulrike Junger and Harriet Aagaard. Not present: Mauro Guerrini, Aida Slavic, Ana Stevanovic, Min Young Hwang, Elena Zagorskaya and Ekaterina Zaytseva.)
The Classification & Indexing Section has changed its name to the Subject Analysis and Access Section. We wanted to have a name that more focused on the use of subject metadata. ” …In addition to the end-user focus (“Access”) we also include the role of the professional. “Analysis” refers to the work and thought that goes into determining “aboutness” (or “determining what a document is about”) and then creating subject access – be it assigning classification or headings, developing thesauri, or devising tools and other automatic ways to achieve subject access…” Read the full article about the name change in the June 2016 Metadata Newsletter, pp 21-23.
The name change is still not visible at our Section’s web, but will be corrected by IFLA .