SCATNews

The December issue of SCATNews (38) has been published. In this issue:

• Letter from the Chair - Hanne Hørl Hansen
• Bulgarian Cataloguing Practices - Milena Milanov
• MulDiCat - Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloguing Terms - Anders Cato
• An introduction to the ALA-LC Romanization Tables - Bruce Chr. Johnson
• Hacking the OPAC with Excel - Niklas Willén
• Linked Open Data Seminar - Gordon Dunsire
• News from the Library of Congress - Susan R. Morris
• The German Translation of RDA is Online - Susanne Oehlschläger
• Cataloguing Apparantly "A Never Ending Story". The Experience of the Vatican Library In Retrospective Conversion - Luigina Orlandi
• Norwegian National Authorities Included in VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) - Frank B. Haugen
• Open Access to Cataloguing Rules - Marian Violeta Bertolini
• Results from the SCATNews Survey - Agnese Galeffi and Unni Knutsen
• Call for papers - WLIC 2013- Audiovisual and Multimedia Section and Cataloguing Section: Macro and Micro : Ways through the Maze
• LIS´2013- Workshop on Classification and Subject Indexing in Library and Information Science, Luxemburg

Bibliography in the Digital Age

News from IFLA.

The videos and presentations from the satellite meeting Bibliography in the digital age arranged by IFLA Bibliography Section and IFLA Cataloguing Section are made available online by our kind host Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw, Poland at: http://www.bn.org.pl/ifla-2012/presentations-and-videos/

The presentations are:

• Aniko Dudás: Who are the users and what are their expectations?
  
• Tuula Haapamäki and Sinikka Luukkanen: Cataloguing Policy in the National Library of Finland - strategies and practices for the metadata of digital resources
  
• Hanne Hørl Hansen: Online materials in The Danish National Bibliography
  
• Karin Kleiber: Online materials published in Austria - collecting, archiving and metadata
  
• Anke Meyer: The management of a digital national bibliography at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
  
• Pat Riva: National Bibliography in Canada: Two national bibliographic agencies, two approaches
  
• Marcin Roszkowski: Integration of Polish National Bibliography within repository platform for science and humanities
  
• Neil Wilson: Guidelines for the future: sharing best practice for national bibliographies in the digital era

SCATNews

The latest issue of SCATNews : Newsletter of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section is now available.

Among the many topics reported are:

• A Canadian Linked Open Data project : out of the trenches : Linked Open Data of the First World War by Pat Riva
  
• Europe pondering adoption of RDA: the European RDA Interest Group (EURIG) by Françoise Leresche
  
• Update on cataloguing namespaces by Gordon Dunsire

SCATNews

Image via WikipediaThe latest issue of SCATNews is now available. It is the newsletter of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section. News from the US, China, Japan, etc. Articles like "FRBR and Linked Data at the French National Library" and "The Principles on Open Bibliographic Data."

New IFLA Publications

Image via WikipediaVarious reports have been posted on the IFLA web site.

ISBD Review Group activities report and meeting reports

ISBD/XML Study Group activities report

A new version of Full ISBD Examples

FRBR Review Group activities report

SCATNews

The June issue of SCATNews, the newsletter of the IFLA Cataloguing Section, is now available.

Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies

The Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies by the IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for Subject Access by National Bibliographic Agencies is now available for review.

The question of how to integrate the multitude of national online resources needs to be considered, how they should be catalogued, how they should be made accessible, and how they could be discovered by bibliography users. Because the Working Group on Guidelines for National Bibliographies of the IFLA Bibliography Section was concerned with exactly these „new directions”, we decided to build our guidelines on their recommendations, published in 2009 under the title National Bibliographies in the Digital Age: Guidance and New Directions. Our guidelines can be understood as a supplement to the 2009 Guidelines.

Our work is also an appeal to the producers of national bibliographies to provide subject access in national bibliographies. Users will benefit from using well organized subject structures of classification systems and subject headings to expand their ways of reaching the resources they want.

Seen on INFOdocket.

SCATnews

The January 2011 issue of SCATnews, the newsletter of the IFLA Cataloguing Section, is now available on the website.

IFLA Cataloguing Section

The IFLA Cataloguing Section's meeting report from the conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, in August is now available online.

Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloguing Terms and Concepts

News from IFLA. The first version of the Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloguing Terms and Concepts (MulDiCat) has been released. It is planned to make a later version available as SKOS. "The Multilingual dictionary of cataloguing terms and concepts contains definitions for many terms and concepts used by the library cataloguing community. Terms and definitions are available in English and a variety of other languages."

IFLA Classification News

The latest Classification and Indexing Section Newsletter, for December 2009, is now available.

IFLA Cataloguing Section

The annual report of the IFLA Cataloguing Section for 2009 is now available.

Full ISBD Examples

New from IFLA, Full ISBD Examples

Full ISBD Examples, a collection of full bibliographic descriptions following the ISBD guidelines, has been published. It is a supplement to the preliminary consolidated edition of the International Standard Bibliographic Description.

SCATNews

The latest issue of SCATNews, the newsletter of the IFLA Cataloguing Section, is now available.

Functional Requirements for Authority Data

IFLA has a new book available, Functional Requirements for Authority Data: A Conceptual Model.

This book represents one portion of the extension and expansion of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. FRBR has been published as Nr 19 in the present Series. It contains a further analysis of attributes of various entities that are the centre of focus for authority data (persons, families, corporate bodies, works, expressions, manifestations, items, concepts, objects, events, and places), the name by which these entities are known, and the controlled access points created by cataloguers for them. The conceptual model describes the attributes of these entities and the relationships between them.

IFLA Classification and Indexing Section Newsletter

The June 2009 IFLA Classification and Indexing Section newsletter is now available.

Statement of International Cataloguing Principles

The Statement of International Cataloguing Principles is now available in 17 languages on IFLANET.

IFLA Cataloguing Section

The IFLA Cataloguing Section's annual report for 2008 is available on IFLANET.

A Spanish translation of the ISBD is also available.

IFLA Classification and Indexing Section Newsletter

The December 2008 issue of the IFLA Classification and Indexing Section Newsletter is now available.

IFLA GMD Paper

The IFLA Cataloguing Section, ISBD Review Group has the document Proposed Area 0 for ISBD up for review.

The Working Group on General Material Designations of the IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code (IME ICC) held in Frankfurt in 2003 suggested that the GMD seemed unsatisfactory because the presence of the content of the resource and of the presentation of the resource were mixed, confusing more than clarifying. Other comments were on its present location, interrupting the logical order of the title information. It was also thought that the GMD was important enough to be at the beginning of the record, and that it should not be optional as it currently is.

Comment by 30 January 2009.