Planning the year

With the coming of the Chinese Lunar New Year (February 23, 2012), we are very busy with the planning of the whole year. The plan will be finalized next week.

Call for Papers, IFLA Cataloguing Section

Call for Papers

IFLA Cataloguing Section

 

Session Theme: Inspired moments in cataloguing!

 

The IFLA Cataloguing Section (IFLA CATS) invites proposals for papers to be presented at the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) in Helsinki, Finland, August 11-17 2012.

 

In the 2012 open session the Cataloguing Committee wants to examine how well our rules and standards support an information infrastructure that fits user needs.

Could they even inspire new ways of using the data?

 

Proposals from all kind of users - from end users to professionals and researchers in cataloguing, cognitive science, persuasive technology, user behavior, interface design etc.– are welcome

 

Areas of interest include:

Do cataloguing rules support user needs?

Integration of metadata from different sources (avoiding silos)

OPAC integration with other discovery tools

User centered design

Learning from search engines e.g. relevance ranking, spell check,sorting, faceting, stemming …

User studies

User behavior vs FRBR user tasks

 

Four successful proposals on the topic will be identified.

 

Send a detailed abstract (1 page or at least 300 words) of the proposed paper (must not have been published elsewhere) and relevant biographical information of author(s)/presenter(s) by 31 January 2012 via email to:

 

Hanne Hørl Hansen 

Chair, Cataloguing Section

e-mail: hah@dbc.dk

 

The abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Cataloguing Section's Standing Committee. Successful proposals will be identified by 1 March 2012.

 

Full papers will be due by 1 May 2012 to allow time for review of papers and preparation of translations; papers should be no longer than 20 pages. 15-20 minutes will be allowed for a summary delivery of the paper during the Cataloguing Section's programme.

 

Please note that the expenses of attending the Helsinki conference will be the responsibility of the author(s)/presenter(s) of accepted papers.

Shanghai Conservatory of Music: Forum & Workshop

A series of events concerning music manuscripts and digital libraries is now held in Shanghai Conservatory of Music as "Forum & Workshop".

Please see the following poster:

http://gz.static.photo.sina.com.cn/show_mop.php?pic_id=552a6941gb1e7f483e567&type=orignal&pm=1

The official report of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music:

http://www.shcmusic.edu.cn/html/News/news/95423.html

and the blog post of Dr. QIAN Renping, the librarian:

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_552a69410102dtnc.html

Video about the National Library of China

BTV (Beijing Television Station) just released a video clip about the National Library of China, as one of its series "The Most Beautiful Beijing" (最美北京):

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzIyOTY4NjQw.html

with three versions respectively in 30", 15" and 10".

Chinese Introduction of the IFLA Bibliography Section

A couple of weeks ago, I translated the introduction of the IFLA Bibliography Section into Chinese. It is now available at the section's website:

http://www.ifla.org/files/bibliography/ifla_bibliography_section_chi.pdf

Chinese Translations of WLIC 2011 Papers Related to Cataloguing

The IFLA website just released the last Chinese translation of the papers for the Cataloguing Section Programme of WLIC 2011 (IFLA General Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 2011). By now, all the four papers of the Cataloguing Section have been translated into Chinese. I also organized the Chinese translation of some papers in UNIMARC Programme.

• 编目组(Cataloguing Section)

  • Breaking barriers between old practices and new demands: the price of hesitation / MAJA ŽUMER, JAN PISANSKI, POLONA VILAR, VIKTOR HAREJ, TANJA MERČUN and KATARINA ŠVAB (Department of Library and Information Studies and Book Science, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia) = 打破传统实践和新需求之间的壁垒：犹豫的代价 / 中文翻译：李恺（首都图书馆，中国北京）
  • Data aggregation and dissemination of Authority Records through Linked Open Data / XAVIER AGENJO (Fundación Ignacio Larramendi, Madrid, Spain), FRANCISCA HERNÁNDEZ and ANDRÉS VIEDMA (DIGIBÍS, Producciones Digitales, Madrid, Spain) = 利用关联开放数据实现规范记录的数据聚合与发布 / 中文翻译：黄亮、刘丹（中国国家图书馆）
  • Comparison of metadata schemas: AACR2+ vs. ICDL's metadata schema / JIHEE BEAK and HOPE A. OLSON (School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA) = 比较元数据模式：AACR2+与 ICDL元数据模式 / 中文翻译：王璐、黄晓莉（澳门科技大学图书馆）
  • A bibliographic logistics for processing mega-medium collections: a practical system of the NCL (Taiwan) to solve the current barriers in cataloguing and services / CHINGFEN HSU and DIING-JONG YAN (Bureau of International Exchange of Publications, Taipei, Taiwan, China) = 融合處理多元媒體的書目系統：突破當前圖書館編目與服務困境所採行的創新作法 / 嚴鼎忠、許靜芬
• UNIMARC
  • UNIMARC and FRBR - can we have both? / TROND AALBERG (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway), JAN PISANSKI and MAJA ŽUMER (University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia) = UNIMARC 和FRBR——我们能两者兼顾吗？ / 中文翻译：罗翀、张蕾累（中国国家图书馆）
  • FRBRization: using UNIMARC link fields to identify Works / MANOLIS PEPONAKIS, MICHALIS SFAKAKIS and SARANTOS KAPIDAKIS (Laboratory on Digital Libraries & Electronic Publishing, Department of Archive & Library Sciences, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece) = FRBR 化：利用UNIMARC 连接字段识别作品 / 中文翻译：金文昌、朱青青（中国国家图书馆）
  • FRBRisation of Koha in the context of CMARC (a UNIMARC-derived format) / NAICHENG CHANG (General Education Center, Tatung University, Taipei, Taiwan, China) and YUCHIN TSAI (National Center for High-performance Computing, National Applied Research Laboratories, Taipei, Taiwan, China = 在CMARC（UNIMARC 衍生格式）環境實作FRBR 轉換——以Koha圖書館管理系統為例 / 張迺貞、蔡育欽

LSC annual conference held in Guiyang

The Annual Conference of the Library Society of China is now held in Guiyang, Guizhou Province.

I will chair a session for information resource development and sharing today in the morning.