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