Dear Core Metadata Interest Group members:
I am posting here my liaison report on CC:DA. Feel free to send me any questions or comments on this thread or via email: trm2151@columbia.edu
For the meeting agenda and many of the liaison reports, please consult the public CC:DA space on ALA Connect and the CC:DA Blog Documents page.. As usual, much of the meeting time is devoted to reports from liaisons, including from Library of Congress, MARC Advisory Committee, and the PCC. In addition, the two ALA representatives to NARDAC (North American RDA Committee) provided a summary of their recent activities. Note also that the next NARDAC Update Forum will happen on March 29.
After a brief period in 2022 where the committee was without a chair, new chair, Amanda Sprocchi (University of Missouri), has been appointed and started work leading the committee. Many thanks to former chair Amanda Ros (Texas A&M) for assuming interim chair responsibilities during 2022.
Discussions centered around internal committee functions, including how to resume the committee's work both as in-person meetings become more normal and how the committee will function after the pause on revision proposals during the multi-year 3R Project, which resulted in the revision to the original RDA Toolkit, known as the "Official Toolkit." Meetings during 2023 will remain virtual, but will shift to a different model in 2024. For 2024, the former midwinter meeting will happen virtually, and the meeting in conjunction with ALA Annual will be an in-person meeting. Although the "Official Toolkit" has not yet been adopted as a cataloging standard by Library of Congress or the PCC, it is likely moving forward, post-3R Project, that revision proposals will originate from NARDAC and other constituencies, with CC:DA functioning as a clearinghouse for discussion and feedback on the proposals. The CC:DA chair is also interested in reviewing liaison relationships and would welcome suggestions of additional groups which could be invited to have a liaison on CC:DA. These groups do not need to be part of ALA.
NARDAC has referred a project regarding reviewing RDA instructions for personal names to CC:DA. A CC:DA task force will be formed along these lines, which may result in some of the current instructions being moved to the Community Resources area of the Official RDA Toolkit. Membership is open to any interested party -- please contact me or the CC:DA chair if you are interested in participating. Note that the task force has not yet been charged. You do not have to be a member of or liaison to CC:DA to participate. NARDAC has also coordinated a series of four webinars to be held over the next three weeks.
There was some brief discussion of application profiles in the Official Toolkit, where it was noted that the Canadian Committee on Cataloging and other groups are currently working on this, but that the USA/ALA constituency has not begun work on this yet for various reasons.
Finally, after the meeting, the chair sent out a call for comment on LRMoo, which along the lines of its predecessor FRBRoo, seeks to create an object-oriented definition of the IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM) in a formal ontology structure. Here is the full text of the call for comments:
The LRMoo Working Group of the Bibliographic Conceptual Models Review Group is pleased to invite your responses in the world-wide review of LRMoo.
LRMoo is the object-oriented formulation of the IFLA Library Reference Model, and is the successor to FRBRoo, the object-oriented formulation of the original FR models, FRBR, FRAD, FRSAD, which was approved as an IFLA standard in 2016.
LRMoo is formulated as a compatible extension to the museum community's conceptual model, the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model and is aligned with version 7.1.2 of CIDOC CRM. LRMoo issues from a long-standing cross-community collaboration between IFLA and ICOM (International Council of Museums) through its CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group.
LRMoo version 0.9.3 (82 pages) is available online and may be downloaded at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iw94nfF8T_Wx1LEdG_5mRCmUcr_AYm7B/view?usp=share_link
Two ways to comment:
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send comments by email to the chair of the LRMoo WG, Pat Riva, at pat.riva@concordia.ca
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comment on specific topics by adding a comment directly to the document in Google Drive
In all cases, send your response by end of day Friday, March 31, 2023.
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Timothy Ryan Mendenhall (he/him)
Metadata Librarian, Columbia University
CORE Metadata Interest Group Liaison to CC:DA
trm2151@columbia.edu------------------------------