Cataloguing Section
Strategic Plan
2007-2009
Mission
The Cataloguing Section of IFLA is the leader of international developments in cataloguing theory, activities, and standards development. The Section analyzes the principles and functions of cataloguing activities for all types of materials and media, including both bibliographic and authority information, for the benefit of all kinds of users. The Section proposes and develops cataloguing rules, guidelines, and standards for bibliographic information, taking into account the developing electronic and networked environment in order to promote universal access to and exchange of bibliographic and authority information.
The Section also provides leadership in the development of various standards and guidelines related to data modeling (e.g. FRBR, FRAD, FRSAR), bibliographic activities, such as corporate name headings, authority entries, OPAC displays, and metadata standards. Co-operation with other sections is in many of these cases needed and desired.
Goals
- Promote the development of an international cataloguing code for bibliographic
description and access.
(Pillar: Profession; Professional
priorities: (f) Promoting resource sharing; (h) Developing library
professionals; (i) Promoting standards, guidelines, and best practice)
- 1.1 Share the draft statement of international cataloguing principles
of the IFLA
Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code (IME ICC) as updated at Seoul in 2006 and at Pretoria in 2007 with former meeting
attendees and with other IFLA sections, especially the Classification and
Indexing Section and the Bibliography Section.
- 1.2 Encourage translations of the draft statement of international cataloguing
principles and glossary; make those translations and other information available
on the meeting Web sites.
- 1.3 Prepare the report in 2007 for IME ICC5 (Pretoria) to submit to
publishers in 2008.
- 1.4 Conduct
a worldwide review of the draft statement in 2008 to determine the final
statement of cataloguing principles and publish it in 2008; encourage translations
of the final statement for posting on IFLA Web sites and possible IFLA publication
in the IFLA Bibliographic Control series.
- 1.5 In 2008, begin the work of a Working Group on an International Cataloguing
Code for description and access to create a code for rule-makers. Take into
account subject cataloguing as relevant. Collaborate with the Bibliography
Section, the Classification and Indexing Section, and other sections as appropriate. Include
review of existing and recently updated codes.
- Continue development and use of the Functional Requirements for
Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model.
(Pillar: Profession; Professional
priorities: (f) Promoting resource sharing; (h) Developing library
professionals; (i) Promoting standards, guidelines, and best practice)
- 2.1 Maintain and develop the FRBR
model in entity-relationship formulation
by issuing amendments, following world-wide reviews.
- Issue the amendment to section 3.2.2 (expression entity) by end of 2007;
- Assess
any amendments to be recommended by the Working Group on Aggregates;
- Assess other reviewing suggestions and follow through as appropriate.
- 2.2 Make plans to adjust the model to reflect the work of the FRANAR
and FRSAR groups and the work on the object-oriented formulation of FRBR.
- 2.3 Develop an object-oriented formulation of FRBR jointly with CIDOC-CRM.
- Complete version 1.0 of FRBRoo and issue it for comment in 2008;
- Develop a "core" model for implementation;
- Support the development of an implementation prototype.
- 2.4 Liaise with appropriate bodies in other communities (such as the
Dublin Core Resource Description
and Access Task Force) and explore opportunities
to express FRBR in other conceptual models and applications.
- Complete a project to create RDF namespaces for FRBR entities in 2008.
- 2.5 Develop, update and make available guidelines and interpretative
documents to assist those applying the FRBR model.
- Update the FRBR
Bibliography semi-annually;
- Prepare new FAQs for the FRBR pages on IFLANET, starting with those on
the expression entity;
- Provide interpretive text on the treatment of aggregates within FRBR.
- 2.6 Continue representation on the IFLA Working
Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering for Authority Records (FRANAR) and on the IFLA
Working Group on Functional Requirements of Subject Authority Records (FRSAR).
- 2.7 Maintain liaisons between the FRBR
Review Group and the ISBD
Review Group and with rule-makers in order to have the main principles of FRBR reflected
in cataloguing codes.
- 2.8 Liaise with ICABS, other IFLA units, vendor groups (such as the
ALA FRBR Implementers’ Group), and with other relevant groups to assure widespread
awareness and use of FRBR.
- 2.9 Monitor and publicize translations
of the FRBR document.
- Continue ISBD revision.
(Pillar: Profession; Professional
priorities: (f) Promoting resource sharing; (i) Promoting standards,
guidelines, and best practice)
- 3.1 Develop a policy recommendation on formulation and use of material
designators in bibliographic records in 2008 for publication in 2009.
- 3.2 Begin the work on the first revision to the consolidated
ISBD for
publication in 2009.
- 3.3 Develop a supplement of examples to submit to publishers in 2008.
- 3.4 Provide leadership in encouraging harmonization of existing cataloguing
rules with the ISBD through communication with rule-making bodies internationally,
with the Joint Steering Committee
for Development of RDA, and with the new
Working Group on an International Cataloguing Code that is to be formed in
2008.
- 3.5 Liaise with ICABS, the IFLA/IPA
Steering Group, with other IFLA
units, and with other relevant groups to assure widespread use of the ISBD
as a metadata content scheme.
- 3.6 Encourage translations of the consolidated ISBD.
- Provide leadership in defining cataloguing processes, the role
of cataloguing activities and the cataloguer in particular in the context
of digital publishing; develop guidelines for organizing the expanding
amount of digital resources.
(Pillar: Profession; Professional
priorities: (f) Promoting resource sharing; (i) Promoting standards,
guidelines, and best practice; (k) Representing libraries in the technological
marketplace)
- 4.1 Include a paper at Québec open session on the treatment of metadata
in DAISY books in co-operation with the Libraries for the Blind Section.
- 4.2 Include a paper at Québec open session on the sharing of standards
within libraries, museums and archives to facilitate cultural heritage discovery.
- 4.3 Begin developing guidelines for bibliographic data for digital objects.
- 4.4 Begin identifying appropriate partners in digital publishing and
tool-makers for digital publishing for consultation and promotion of bibliographic
standards.
- Develop additional approaches, standards, rules, and lists for
information that provide access to bibliographic and authority data in
all languages.
(Pillar: Profession; Professional
priorities: (d) Providing unrestricted access to information;
(f) Promoting resource sharing; (i) Promoting standards, guidelines, and
best practice)
- 5.1 Publish Anonymous Classics, Part 3, Africa. Distribute
Part 4, Asia, for review. Develop contacts for work on Part
2, Latin America.
- 5.2 Monitor Unicode activities and keep the Section members informed
of new developments via the Section newsletter.
- 5.3 Support the work on the virtual
international authority file (VIAF) project and share information about the project.
- 5.4 Continue updating Names of Persons. Invite comments, additions,
and updates. Add Chinese section.
- Explore opportunities for promoting cataloguing activities, especially
for developing countries.
(Pillars: Society, Members, Profession; Professional
priorities: (c) Promoting literacy and reading; (f) Promoting
resource sharing; (h) Developing library professional; (i) Promoting standards,
guidelines, and best practice)
- 6.1 Ensure that the section standards, guidelines, and reports are available
in print and/or on IFLANET.
- 6.2 Continue to promote bibliographic standards and information about
cataloguing developments around the world via documents from Standing Committee
groups, the Section newsletter, and information in International
Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control.
- 6.3 Provide updated information for the division's listing of standards.
- Provide information about the work of the Section and Standing
Committee.
(Pillars: Members, Profession; Professional
priorities: (a) Supporting the role of libraries in society; (d) Providing unrestricted access to information; (f) Promoting resource sharing;
(h) Developing library professionals; (i) Promoting standards, guidelines,
and best practice)
- 7.1 Assure distribution of all relevant documents to all Section members.
- 7.2 Continue communication of Section and Standing Committee activities
through the Section newsletter, the open programme of the Section, IFLANET, ICBC, CATSMAIL
(the Section list) etc.
- 7.3. Post the strategic plan of the Section on IFLANET and encourage
translations.
- 7.4. Encourage translations of Section documents and of open programme
papers.
- Promote membership in the Section, emphasizing a broader geographic
representation on the Standing Committee.
(Pillars: Members, Profession; Professional
priorities: (f) Promoting resource sharing; (h) Developing library
professionals; (i) Promoting standards, guidelines, and best practice)
- 8.1 Involve more representatives from existing institutional members
in attending meetings of the Standing Committee and in participating in the
various Working Groups of the Section by emphasizing opportunities in the
Section newsletter and via CATSMAIL (the Section list).
- 8.2 Send information on the activities of the Section to library associations
in underrepresented regions of the world, to IFLA offices for Asia and Latin
America, and to chairs of sections in IFLA Division VIII.
