Cataloging Multimedia: Problems and PracticeAllison Nellis Ruojing Zhang Joshua Dull
Cataloging Video GamesAARC:Combines rules for Program File & Realia
RDA:“Computer Program” or “2D/3D Moving Image”
How do you catalog this?
🎮 Currently No LC Standards
🎮 LCSH cannot accurately describe plot & gameplay
🎮 UW proposed controlled vocab. to add plot based metadata access points. Works on Verb Object relations e.g.
(Characters) Conquer Evil
Cataloging AV in GeneralConcerns:➔ Audiovisual materials contain rich
information; they are difficult to describe/assign subject heading
➔ Preservation AV data requires new level of cataloging rules
➔ No “one size fits all” solution
AACR/MARC cataloging rules work for libraries, but are not enough to support specialized archives/databases
Metadata are better tools for managing AV materials. DC and schemas based on DC are widely used. Many organizations develop their own metadata. Sometimes it is necessary to combine multiple schemas.
- MPEG-7: using hierarchical structure for frame-specific indexing and retrieving
- PBCore: developed by TV broadcasting stations for digital asset managing, reusing old materials and rights management
Film catalogers currently use the RDA format and FRBR when cataloging moving images. The cataloger has to be aware of things such as language, title, and a whole slew of other factors that need to be considered when accurately cataloging film. FRBR is used to describe the relationship between the film to other works.
An issue that can arise when cataloging concerns the manifestation of a film. Several versions of a film can exist which can cause difficulties when cataloging a film for an archive.
Cataloging Film
Pratt InstituteLIS 653-01
Spring 2015Prof. Pattuelli
To Dewey or Not to Dewey; That is the Classification Question
Child-Centered Cataloging● Focusing specifically on the needs, wants,
and ways of thinking of children
● Using child-centered words and phrases for
non fiction works in the library space
● Emphasis on ensuring that children have non
fiction books as informative and fun reading
options
● Most essential focus is on patron happiness
and extreme customer service to get the
patrons to keep coming back- without our
patrons, we are nothing!
Prepared by: Julie Morrison, Anna Lillian Moser, Marjorie Ticknor & Sara Sheer, LIS 653, Spring ‘15
Pros and Cons of DDC
● Worldwide appeal; universal
● Endorsement by Library of Congress
● Benefits of relative location
● Flexible
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● Bias - racial, religious, gender, class
● Outdated categorization
● Can not be browsed
● Not intuitive or logical
● Numbers are arbitrary; can be initimidating
Putting METIS Into Practice ● METIS throws Dewey out completely,
replacing categories with words and
pictures
● METIS is user-centered, and
meets children where they are developmentally
● METIS keeps evolving, which can cause
confusion when cataloging and
shelving
”To thine own library be true!”
Radical Cataloging
● Pioneered by Sanford Berman
● Eliminate biases: racism, sexism,
homophobia, classism, prudery, etc.
● Catalog every important aspect of a book
so that patrons can find it easily
● “Public notes” to explain unfamiliar
concepts
● Use terminology for minority communities,
i. e., Native Americans, that they
themselves use, and continually consult
and revise
● Add subject headings like “Plutocracy”
● Part of Berman’s ideal of activist
librarianship where librarians actively work
for social justice