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Backstage - Phase 3 NAF Cleanup
by Nate Cothran 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

http://www.loc.gov/cds/notices/141023c.pdf Library of Congress (LC) and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) have been testing the RDA changes they plan to make to the name authority file. Our own Karen Anderson is part of the task group that is looking into this; other members include (but are not limited to): Gary L Strawn, Richard Moore, Paul Frank, Ana Cristan, and David Williamson. As the link above states, Phase 3 has been split into two parts: 3a & 3b. Phase 3a primarily concerns itself with changes to the 1xx field, though other corollary fields or minor edits are also included. Approximately 350,000 records will be affected. The timeline, while mentioned in the link as between December 1st and 19th, is still not quite decided. Though if it does happen that Phase 3a runs & completes in December, Backstage will be able to easily absorb the changes and distribute those out to our customers. Of course, this means that your next Notification update after that December timeframe could be substantial, depending on how many of those 350k authority changes are reflected in your own authority database. Phase 3b is not scheduled to commence until June 2015 at the earliest. The task group is supposed to submit their final proposal by March 2015 regarding the changes for 3b, the most exciting of which is the inclusion of ISNI identifiers (presumably in 024 fields). I know that there has been some expression of frustration that neither Phase 3a nor 3b has had much exposure on the various listservs to this point. We're hoping that this is remedied soon so others can have a voice about what to expect and how to prepare. Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automated Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automated%20Services> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars> [thumbsup32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=1>[thumbsdown32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=0> How am I doing?<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15>

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Backstage - Metadata for Library Book Discovery - Archived Webinar Available
by Nate Cothran 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

http://media2.fwpublications.com.s3.amazonaws.com/DBW-Webcasts/Metadata-for… (size: 104 mb; 57:58 mins; Q&A starts at 43:09; short-link: http://bslw.it/1pQMyt5) This is a direct link to the MP4 file that Digital Book World created for the recent webinar. Nicole Arbuckle (VP Metadata Services) and Karen Anderson (Authorities Librarian) presented their findings on different methods to make library books more discoverable through exploiting the metadata. If you have other thoughts or ideas as to what else you wished publishers knew about, we welcome those ideas in the event that we do another webcast for publishers in the future. Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automated Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automated%20Services> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars> [thumbsup32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=1>[thumbsdown32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=0> How am I doing?<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15>

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Backstage - Metadata for Library Book Discovery Webinar (today)
by Nate Cothran 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

Apologies for the late notice on this morning's webinar: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/919908737 Time: Oct 21, 2014 9AM PST / 12PM EST It is free to register and view and is being hosted by Digital Book World. Nicole Arbuckle (Metadata Services) and Karen Anderson (Authorities Librarian) are sharing the latest best practices for library metadata creation and management. Please feel free to join if you are able. Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automated Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automated%20Services> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars> [thumbsup32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=1>[thumbsdown32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=0> How am I doing?<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15>

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Backstage - OCLC MARC Format Update - Conflicts?
by Nate Cothran 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

http://oclc.org/support/services/worldcat/documentation/tb/264.en.html We have a prospective client that is considering the base file processing but is unsure whether the OCLC MARC Format Update conflicts with any of our processing. Unfortunately, we are not aware of clients that also may be using OCLC's format update service, so we wanted to reach out to all of you to see if you are using the service and if there are any conflicts we should be aware of. We appreciate any feedback you may have to share with either the listserv or off-list about this. Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automated Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automated%20Services> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars> [thumbsup32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=1>[thumbsdown32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=0> How am I doing?<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15>

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Backstage - RDA Webinar #1 Online
by Nate Cothran 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

www.bslw.com/presentations/rda<http://www.bslw.com/presentations/rda> - 21:53 minutes The first RDA Webinar that Nicole and I put together last week is now online. After last week's presentation, we realized the need to record another version since the previous one included the beeps and bloops of all of us joining the conference line. So this new version has much cleaner audio than what you may have been able to hear last week. We appreciate all of you taking the time last week to join us on the webinar. At one point, we had 170 people join the webinar with about 145 sticking around for the entirety. Going forward, we would like to expand these webinars and discuss our RDA services & collateral in more detail. This initial webinar was intended to be a refresher of our work up to this point with some comparison included at the end. We are always looking for ways to improve both the content we share and the manner in which we share it, so please feel free to comment or provide any feedback you may have for us. [Backstage Library Works] Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automation Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automation%20Services%20-%20Inquiry> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars>

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Backstage - RDA Webinar - 9/10
by Nate Cothran 09 Sep '14

09 Sep '14

Last week, we sent out an email invitation to a webinar we are hosting tomorrow. In an effort to make sure we include everyone we can, I am also sending out this invitation on our internal listserv here. Nicole Arbuckle (VP, Metadata Services) and I are the presenters for the webinar. The webinar will take about 30 minutes with a Q&A period following the presentation. We are planning to talk a little about each of these topics: * History of our work & participation with RDA * Statistics of existing & new clients enriching their files with RDA elements * Briefly describe the results from the 2013 internal RDA survey * Comparison between Automated & Manual RDA enrichment You can register here: http://bit.ly/rda09102014<http://bslw.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=12f6693b001ffb5e2c622ac6e&id=…> Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 Time: 10am PDT 11am MDT 12am CDT 1pm EDT 5pm GMT We look forward to seeing you there tomorrow. [cid:image002.gif@01CFCC05.A3EFD3A0] Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automation Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automation%20Services%20-%20Inquiry> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars>

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Backstage - Authority Control Reports
by Nate Cothran 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

re-port an account given of a particular matter, especially in the form of an official document, after thorough investigation or consideration by an appointed person or body At Backstage, we have always had more reports than our competition. And, as the years went on, we tended to keep adding more reports mainly because our customers would ask for certain scenarios or issues to be reported out. In the recent past, we toyed with the idea of scrapping our reports and trying to cram as much useful information across different sets into perhaps just five solid reports instead. But this is a difficult task when there may be yet another report around the corner that makes sense to start including as an option for everyone else. It is probably safe to say that we have a monster set of reports available now, for either authority control processing or RDA enrichment. In fact, trying to sort through these reports can be overwhelming for our customers, I imagine. Our intent with the reports is to give you exactly what you want to look at with the full realization that you may willfully ignore complete swaths of other kinds of our reports-and that's okay. The last thing we want to do is make the review process any more time-consuming for you. Alas, we also want to leave no stone unturned when it comes to your processing. So what, if any, is the compromise? As a start, we have generated a "legend" of sorts for using our reports. You can click on this link and it will download a small zip file with a spreadsheet listing the reports and what they correspond to with regards to our profile options: http://bslw.it/1qUzc4n In addition to that, we consider the following reports to be essential when reviewing your results: Samples R01 - Statistical Summary R01 - RDA Statistical Summary R122 - Side by Side Record Comparison R00 - Near Match (in xls format) R05 - Matched Headings R06 - Partially Matched Headings R09 - Possible Invalid Tags R11 - Heading Usage Not Authorized R25 - Unrecognized $z Subfields R30 - Updated Headings Base files R01 - Statistical Summary R01 - RDA Statistical Summary R00 - Near Match (in xls format) R25 - Unrecognized $z Subfields R30 - Updated Headings Current Cataloging R01 - Statistical Summary R01 - RDA Statistical Summary R00 - Near Match (in xls format) R25 - Unrecognized $z Subfields R30 - Updated Headings Authority Notification R02 - Authority Adds R03 - Authority Changes R04 - Authority Deletes Of course, there are many other reports that you may find useful and frequently use and that's great. We always want to make sure we have you covered; at the same time, we would like to make it easier for you if we can. Along those lines, we really do welcome any feedback about how to make our reports more useful. Please feel free to respond either on- or off-list about what we can do to improve your workflow with regards to our reports. [cid:image002.gif@01CFAFEB.5520C4E0] Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automation Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automation%20Services%20-%20Inquiry> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars>

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Backstage - Bib 34X fields
by Nate Cothran 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

Based on requests from customers, we have begun work on adding 34X fields to records as part of our RDA enrichment options. For now, we are mainly concentrating on 344, 345, 346, and 347 fields. We are primarily looking for the data to populate/generate these 34X fields from the 300 field and 538 field. The 500 field is a catch-all field and has been used for almost everything over the years, which means it can be useful but also means that it may not be as reliable as desired in every case. We are currently debating whether it makes sense to also include 500 fields when adding information to the 34X fields. Karen Anderson put forth the research to develop our GMD to CMC rules (of which, there are over 1000 rules at this point). We are finding, however, that the 34X fields do not fit as neatly as desired in our general mapping workflows, so these are proving to be a bit more problematic to add. Still, we aim to have these in place in the next two months for libraries that may be interested in adding more descriptive fields to their records as part of the RDA enrichment options we have available. 344 - Sound Characteristics (link<http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd344.html>) - $a Type of recording - $b Recording medium - $c Playing speed - $d Groove characteristic - $e Recording track configuration - $f Tape configuration - $g Configuration of playback channels - $h Special playback characteristics 345 - Projection Characteristics of Moving Image (link<http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd345.html>) - $a Presentation format - $b Projection speed 346 - Video Characteristics (link<http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd346.html>) - $a Video format - $b Broadcast standard 347 - Digital File Characteristics (link<http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd347.html>) - $a File type - $b Encoding format - $c File size - $d Resolution - $e Regional encoding - $f Encoding bitrate [cid:image002.gif@01CFA4F1.06D6D590] Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automation Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automation%20Services%20-%20Inquiry> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars>

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Backstage - Webinars & Presentations
by Nate Cothran 13 May '14

13 May '14

At Backstage, we are always on the lookout for presentation and other related opportunities with our clients. Jeremy Myntti (University of Utah, Marriott Library) and I co-presented at the Authority Control Interest Group in ALA Annual (Chicago, 2013). We discussed our work on providing authority control for digital collections in a non-MARC environment. In addition to the presentation at ACIG in Chicago 2013, Jeremy & I also participated in an online webinar hosted by Mountain West Digital Library: http://mwdl.org/events/authcontrol.php. Earlier this year, I did a co-presentation with Sarah Beth Weeks from the Bridge Consortium, regarding our RDA enrichment services. Sarah & I talked about what transpired with her records from our different perspectives; Sarah also very nearly lost her voice on the day we presented but was able to pull it off without a hitch. Archived versions of our presentation are available to Amigos members here: http://www.amigos.org/rda_conference. I should note that the picture they used of me is easily 10 years old! I have much more gray in my hair now. As you look at your calendar of potential presentation or webinar opportunities in the next 6 or so months, please keep us in mind for anything that might make sense for joining with you. It could be that participating in a co-presentation at this year's ALA Annual in Las Vegas is too late, but we welcome other prospects down the road. Especially as we start enriching more and more of your records with RDA elements, it may make sense to put together a presentation or webinar and talk about the effects running that process has had on your staff, your catalog, and your patrons. Please feel free to respond either to the list or offline if you would like to pursue presentations or webinars with us. We also have others on the team that would love to participate and lend their expertise, assisting you in whatever way we can. Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automation Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com <mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automation%20Services%20-%20Inquiry> | bslw.com <http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars <http://ac.bslw.com/mars>

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Backstage - [et al.] to [and others]
by Nate Cothran 01 May '14

01 May '14

Currently, we are changing [et al.] (and a very small permutations of this) to [and others] (BSLW Wiki: link <http://bslw.it/1kq0hWI> ). This change happens for all languages. So if a record is in English, it is updated to [and others]; if a record is in German it is updated to [and others]. We are also working on a report that lets you know when we change [et al.] to [and others] and the language code (008[35-37]) is not 'eng' (i.e. English). But we wanted to check with you all about whether it made sense to change [et al.] to the foreign-language equivalent of [and others], based on the 008[35-37] language code. For example, if 008[35-37] is 'ger' (i.e. German), would you want us to change [et al.] to [und andere]? Or we should we continue changing it to [and others]? Please note that this change only happens for clients that have instructed us to do so via RDA 4.1 (online profile). Thank you for any thoughts you may have on this question. Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automation Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com <mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automation%20Services%20-%20Inquiry> | bslw.com <http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars <http://ac.bslw.com/mars>

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