Archival Moving Image Materials: a Cataloging Manual. 2nd ed. Washington: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, 2001- .

<http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/arch0332.htm> (7 July 2003).

Also known as AMIM2, the manual is compiled by Wendy White-Hensen and maintained by the Library of Congress. Includes a glossary and links to catalogers reference sources. Updates to the manual are found in: Cataloging Service Bulletin, Spring 2001; 92:21-25, and is available on the Web at: <http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso>

udio Interchange Standards. The Diffuse Project, funded by Information Society Technologies programme, November 2002. <http://www.diffuse.org/audio.html> (8 July 2003).

The list provides information on standards used to interchange audio (sound) data, from MPEG standards to WAVE and MIDI among others.

A set of fifteen elements used to describe a wide range of networked resources. Approved by ANSI, the Dublin Core metadata standard is designed for simplicity of creation and maintenance, commonly understood terminology, international in scope, and extensibility.

Maintained by the Library of Congress in partnership with the Society of American Archivists, the EAD is a standard for encoding archival finding aids using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).

Includes introductory information on MARC, documentation of all MARC formats, code lists, crosswalks, MARC in XML, and more, in English and Spanish.

The Introduction and Appendix A (fact sheets for participating institutions) are also available on the AMIA website: http://www.amianet.org/05_Committees/5b2_CDSite/index.html. Appendix E (additional local guidelines and examples) supplements the printed volume and is available online only at: http://www.amianet.org/05_Committees/5b2_CDSite/index.html.

An XML (extensible Markup Language) schema for a bibliographic element set that may be used for a variety of purposes, and particularly for library applications.

Maintained by the Canadian Committee on Archival Description, RAD provides guidelines in describing collections by format. RAD is freely available for download in .pdf format.

Provides downloadable .pdf files of ISAAR(CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families and ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, 2nd ed., as well as links to the “Guidelines for the Preparation and Presentation of Finding Aids” and the “Guidelines for the Translation of Standards of the Committee on Descriptive Standards” documents.

Consists of a single element set that can be applied as many times as necessary to create records to describe works of visual culture as well as the images that document them. It follows the “1:1 principle,” developed by the Dublin Core community.

Walch, Victoria Irons. Standards for Archival Description: a Handbook. Chicago, Ill. : The Society of American Archivists, c1994. <http://www.archivists.org/catalog/stds99/> (7 July 2003).

Describes technical standards, conventions, and guidelines used by archivists in describing holdings and repositories.

Art & Architecture Thesaurus On Line. The J. Paul Getty Trust, 2000. <http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/index.html> (7 July 2003).

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names On Line. The J. Paul Getty Trust, 200. <http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/> (7 July 2003).

Library of Congress Authorities. Library of Congress, November 4, 2002. <http://authorities.loc.gov/> (7 July 2003).

Free over the Internet on an experimental basis. Includes Library of Congress, Name Authorities and Library of Congress Subject Headings, as well as a “Help Desk” and a link to FAQs.

The Moving Image Genre-Form Guide. Library of Congress, Motion Picture/Broadcasting/Recorded Sound Division, February, 1998. <www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/migintro.html> (7 July 2003).

Radio Form/Genre Terms Guide, Recorded Sound Reference Center. Library of Congress, Motion Picture/Broadcasting/Recorded Sound Division, April 17, 2000. <http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/frmgen.html> (7 July 2003).

hesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGM I). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. <http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/> (7 July 2003).

Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre & Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM II). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. <http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm2/> (7 July 2003).

Union List of Artist Names On Line. The J. Paul Getty Trust, 2000. <http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/ulan/> (7 July 2003).

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XrML 2.0 is extensible and fully compliant with XML namespaces using XML schema technology. It provides a universal method for securely specifying and managing rights and conditions associated with all kinds of resources including digital content as well as services. XrML is currently being explored as the base for the rights language specification by MPEG and Open eBook Forum.

MPEG-21 aims at defining a normative open framework for multimedia delivery and consumption for use by all the players in the delivery and consumption chain. In this sense, it covers much more than intellectual property rights. The goal of MPEG-21 is to define the technology needed to support users to exchange, access, consume, trade and otherwise manipulate Digital Items in an efficient, transparent and interoperable way.

The ODRL specification supports an extensible language and vocabulary (data dictionary) for the expression of terms and conditions over any content including permissions, constraints, obligations, conditions, and offers and agreements with rights holders. The ODRL has also been submitted to MPEG for their rights language specification, and it is freely available and has no licensing requirements.

The Library of Congress AV Prototype Project will use the emerging Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) to encode the metadata for digital objects. The METS website includes an Overview and Tutorial about the primary schema that is intended to serve as a framework document and explains that users may select extension schemas in order to provide additional metadata.

“Designed for use in the construction of catalogues and other lists in general libraries of all sizes. … The rules cover the description of, and the provision of access points for, all library materials commonly collected at the present time”—Rule 0.1.

Core Bibliographic Record for Moving Image Materials (PCC CBR-MI/Final). Program for Cooperative Cataloging, December 17, 1997. <http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/coremim.html> (7 July 2003).

Documentation: Guidelines for the Establishment and Development of Monolingual Thesauri, ISO 2788-1986. International Standards Organization (ISO), 1986.

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. UBCIM Publications – New Series vol. 19. Munich: K.G. Saur, 1998. <http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf> (7 July 2003).

Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri, ANSI/NISO Z39.19-1993. American National Standards Institute and National Information Standards Organization, 1993.

Henson, Stephen L. Archives, Personal Papers and Manuscripts: a Cataloging Manual for Archival Repositories, Historical Societies, and Manuscript Libraries. 2nd ed. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1989.

Also known as APPM, it is used by archivists and curators in diverse repositories to describe their collections.

Library of Congress Name Authorities. Washington, D.C.: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, 2001.

Also searchable on OCLC and RLIN. See also Library of Congress Authorities under Thesauri and Controlled Vocabularies section.

Library of Congress Subject Headings. 24th ed. Washington, D.C.: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, 2001.

Published in 5 volumes and also known as LCSH. Available as part of Classification Web. Also searchable on OCLC and RLIN. See also Library of Congress Authorities under Thesauri and Controlled Vocabularies section.

Program for Cooperative Cataloging NACO Home Page. Library of Congress, June 17, 2003. <http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco.html> (7 July 2003).

Includes instructions on submitting personal name, corporate name, conference and exhibition name, and uniform title headings for inclusion in NAF, as well as FAQs about name authorities and links to related documents.

Includes instructions on proposing and submitting subject headings for inclusion in LCSH, as well as FAQs about subject authorities and links to related documents.

Provides help in figuring out how to configure public access cataloging software to index and display MARC records.

Updates to the above are found in: Moving Image Materials: Genre Terms. CSB. Fall 1989; 46:61-65 and Moving Image Materials: Genre Terms. CSB. Summer 1990; 49:51-64.

Provides help in deciding which of the two available sources of genre and form terms for moving image materials to use for your collection.

Currier, Sarah. “Learning & Teaching and Metadata Workshop, JISC Moving Image and Sound Development Projects, Report to CETIS Metadata SIG.” July 16, 2002. <http://www.cetis.ac.uk/groups/20010801162745/FR20020722121532> (7 July 2003).

A report on the workshop that was arranged for representatives of the JISC Moving Image & Sound Cluster development projects. Includes links to PowerPoint presentations.

Green, David. “Beyond Word and Image, Networking Moving Images: More Than “Just” the Movies,” D-Lib Magazine. July/August 1997. <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july97/07green.html> (7 July 2003).

A report submitted to the ALCTS-Education Task Force in response to Action Item 5.1 of the "Bibliographic control of Web Resources: A Library of Congress Action Plan." <http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/actionplan.html> (16 July 2003)

The proposal will be implemented from 2003-2005.

Statement of Principles for the CUSTARD Project. Chicago, Ill.: The Society of American Archivists, 2002- <http://www.archivists.org/news/custardproject.asp> (7 July 2003).
The CUSTARD project (Canadian-U.S. Task Force on Archival Description) is an NEH-funded project that will reconcile APPM, the Canadian Rules for Archival Description (RAD), and the General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G)) to create a set of descriptive rules that can be used with EAD and MARC21

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Includes general FAQs about metadata as well as specific Dublin Core FAQs.

Includes FAQs for all MPEG standards, including MPEG-7.

Describes authority records, its use and purpose, as well as answer questions about searching and viewing them. Includes links to many related resources.

Includes definitions for terms found in the resource relating to metadata and standards and provides links to additional glossaries.

Includes terms commonly used in the financial appraisal of audiovisual materials.

Includes glossary of technical terms and acronyms with links to organizations relating to digital imaging.

Includes definitions for technical and production terms for film and video.

Includes terms and definitions from a selection of ISO standards for the presentation, identification and description of documents. The glossary is still under construction and does not yet cover the full range of standards developed by the ISO committee.

Includes definitions for various metadata standards and cataloging rules.

Produced for archivists, librarians, curators, and conservators to assist them in the identification of videotapes in their collections. Includes a separate glossary for video terms and provides helpful images with text, as well as obsolescence ratings of formats.

Provides definitions for technical and digital television production terms.

Association of Moving Image Archivists, Cataloging & Documentation Committee. “Moving Image Cataloging,” Resources Page, 2000- . <http://www.amianet.org/05_Committees/5b2_CDSite/index.html> (July 7, 2003).

Includes a bibliography of moving image cataloging resources, general cataloging resources, cataloging standards resources, and website links for organizations, such as FIAF and the Library of Congress, as provided by the Cataloging Committee of AMIA.

“Behavioral Images, Incorporated’s Bibliography,” MediaValue.com, 2003- . <http://www.mediavalue.com/bibliography1.htm> (7 July 2003).

Includes selected sources used in the appraisal of audiovisual materials.

Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid and Smith, Michael. Cataloging & Metadata Resources, A Companion site for Organizing Audiovisual and Electronic Resources for Access: A Cataloging Guide. March 21, 2001. <http://slis.cua.edu/ihy/catmeta.htm> (8 July 2003).

Marsh, Dawn. “Cataloging and Access,” Moving Image Preservation and Archiving Resources. October 22, 2001. <http://web.simmons.edu/~marshd/film/catalog.html> (7 July 2003).

Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc., Cataloging and Policy Committee. Authority Tools for Audio-Visual and Music Catalogers: An Annotated List of Useful Resources. January 16, 2003. <http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/capc/authtools.html> (7 July 2003).

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services is responsible for the following activities: acquisition, identification, cataloging, classification, and preservation of library materials; the development and coordination of the country's library resources; and those areas of selection and evaluation involved in the acquisition of library materials and pertinent to the development of library resources.

American Library Association, Committee on Cataloging: Description & Access (CC:DA)
http://www.ala.org/Content/ContentGroups/ALCTS1/Cataloging_and_Classification_Section/Committees3/Cataloging__Description_and_Acccess/Cataloging__Description_and_Acccess.htm

The Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) is the body within the American Library Association responsible for developing official ALA positions on additions to and revisions of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition, 2002 Revision.

MARBI is the body within the American Library Association responsible for developing official ALA positions on standards for the representation in machine-readable form of bibliographic information. MARBI focuses its attention on the development of the MARC format.

A nonprofit organization, Amigos is today one of the nation’s largest library resource-sharing networks and a leader in providing information technology to libraries. The Amigos Membership consists of over 750 libraries and cultural institutions, located primarily in the southwestern United States, who utilize Amigos’ comprehensive line of services, including cataloging, reference, resource sharing, preservation, digital imaging, consulting and training.

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups, global workshops, conferences, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.

Organized in 1999, IMAP is a service, education, and advocacy consortium to ensure the preservation of independent electronic media for cultural and educational use by future generations. IMAP works with collections found in museums, arts centers, artists' spaces, dance and theater companies, libraries, university departments, non-profit distributors, public television stations, and with individual artists or producers.

CDS serves the information needs of the Library of Congress and its national and international constituencies by developing and marketing products and services which provide access to Library of Congress resources.

OLAC provides a means for exchange of information, continuing education, and communication among catalogers of audiovisual materials and with the Library of Congress. While maintaining a voice with the bibliographic utilities that speak for catalogers of audiovisual materials, OLAC works toward common understanding of AV cataloging practices and standards.\

OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, library computer service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs.

The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The Open Archives Initiative has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication. Continued support of this work remains a cornerstone of the Open Archives program. The fundamental technological framework and standards that are developing to support this work are, however, independent of the both the type of content offered and the economic mechanisms surrounding that content, and promise to have much broader relevance in opening up access to a range of digital materials. As a result, the Open Archives Initiative is currently an organization and an effort explicitly in transition, and is committed to exploring and enabling this new and broader range of applications. As we gain greater knowledge of the scope of applicability of the underlying technology and standards being developed, and begin to understand the structure and culture of the various adopter communities, we expect that we will have to make continued evolutionary changes to both the mission and organization of the Open Archives Initiative.

The Program for Cooperative Cataloging is an international cooperative effort aimed at expanding access to library collections by providing useful, timely, and cost-effective cataloging that meets mutually-accepted standards of libraries around the world.
Its goals are to:
1) Cooperatively enhance the timely availability of bibliographic and authority records by cataloging more items, producing cataloging that is widely available for sharing and use by others, and performing cataloging in a more cost-effective manner.
2) Develop and maintain mutually acceptable standards for records.
3) Promote the values of timely access and cost-effectiveness in cataloging, and expand the pool of catalogers who catalog using the mutually-accepted standards.
4) Increase the sharing and use of foreign bibliographic and authority records.
5) Provide for ongoing discussion, planning, and operations among participants in order to further the program's mission.

RLG is a not-for-profit membership corporation of over 160 universities, national libraries, archives, historical societies, and other institutions with remarkable collections for research and learning. Rooted in collaborative work that addresses members' shared goals for these collections, RLG develops and operates information resources used by members and nonmembers around the world.

The SAA Description Section provides a forum for the exchange of information and ideas about all aspects of archival description among those responsible for, involved in, or interested in description projects, descriptive standards, and descriptive systems.

The Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards (TSDS) is responsible for developing, maintaining, monitoring, and promulgating standards used by archivists to describe their holdings. This includes descriptive standards developed within the SAA as well as those developed outside the archival community.

The Video Development Initiative (ViDe) promotes the deployment of digital video in research and higher education. Leveraging our collective resources and expertise, ViDe advances digital video deployment through promotion and development of interoperable, standardized, and cost-effective technologies.

Archive Builders
http://www.archivebuilders.com/abcourses.html

Document Imaging and Document Management”
Los Angeles, CA
June 24-26, 2003; August 1-3, 2003; September 16-18, 2003

This course is designed to assist managers to be more effective in bringing the immediate and long term benefits of document imaging and document management to their organizations and to their organizations’ clients, customers, and constituents. Students will learn about the technology of scanning, importing, transmitting, organizing, indexing, storing, protecting, searching, retrieving, viewing, printing, preserving, and authenticating documents for document imaging systems, and archives. Image and document formats, metadata, XML (eXtensible Markup Language), multimedia, rich text, PDF (Portable Document Format), GIS (Geographic Information Systems), CAD (Computer Aided Design), VR (Virtual Reality) and GPS (Global Positioning System) indices, image enabled databases, data visualization, finite element analysis models, animations, molecular models, RAM (Random Access Memory) based SQL (Structured Query Language) databases, knowledge management, data warehousing, records inventories, retention schedules, black and white, grayscale, and color scanning, OCR (Optical Character Recognition), multispectral imaging, audio and video digitizing, destructive (lossy) and non-destructive (lossless) compression, digital signatures and seals, encryption, the three components of vision: resolution, color, and motion, the imaging technology of continuous tone, halftoning, dithering, and pixels, RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) fault tolerance, ECCs (Error Correcting Codes for RAID, CD, and DVD), and mirrored site disaster planning will be discussed. System design issues in hardware, software, networking, ergonomics, and workflow will be covered. Emerging technologies such as the DVD Digital Video Disc, HDTV (High Definition TV), and very high speed Internet, intranet, and extranet links, Internet protocol stacks, and Internet2 will be presented.

Amigos training courses cover an array of topics important to libraries, scheduled and delivered in a variety of ways. From OCLC to the Internet, reference and technical services to management and technology, Amigos can assist in determining training needs and in identifying or developing courses and delivery methods to meet them.

NEDC periodically holds a conference entitled “School for Scanning.” School for Scanning is taught by some of the nation’s leading experts in digital library development and provides current, essential information for managers of paper-based collections (including photographs) who are seeking to create, manage, and preserve digital assets. Conference content includes project management, interoperability, copyright and other legal issues, content selection for digitization, text and image digitization, the IT perspective, essentials of delivery systems, digital asset management, metadata, and digital longevity and preservation.

Program for Cooperative Cataloging conducts specialized training for participants in conjunction with professional meetings and conferences, or as part of the Program itself with training held at the Library of Congress or PCC libraries around the world.

Intensive courses are offered in three PCC programs: NACO, SACO, and BIBCO. In addition to providing training for its members, CONSER has developed the Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program, a cooperative endeavor to produce standardized training materials and to train experienced serials catalogers to be trainers. These workshops, which are sponsored by other organizations, are open to all.

An educational organization dedicated to promoting the evolution of libraries and information services by providing managers with opportunities for advanced education and knowledge exchange. Offers workshops, courses, and special events related to cataloging via videoconferencing and web-delivery and features continuing education e-learning library on its web-site.

Library Schools

Several library schools offer courses online, including courses dealing with cataloging and description matters. Courses change semester-to-semester; check with each school for specific information and enrollment requirements.

Offers a graduate certificate in Audiovisual Archiving, which requires the completion of four subjects. Students may take single courses.

Must be enrolled in the University as a degree-seeking or continuing education student.

Offers complete online Master’s degree. Must be enrolled in University as a degree-seeking student.

Offers complete online Master’s degree. Must be enrolled in University as a degree-seeking student.

Must be enrolled in the University as a degree-seeking student.

Must be enrolled in the University as a degree-seeking student.

Offers continuing education workshops through its Office of Continuing Education.

Offers complete online Master’s degree. Must be enrolled in University as a degree-seeking student.

Offers complete online Master’s degree. Must be enrolled in University as a degree-seeking student.

Offers a minimum of two online courses per semester. Must be enrolled in the University as a degree-seeking student.

Offers complete online Master’s degree. Must be enrolled in University as a degree-seeking student.

Offers complete online Master’s degree. Must be enrolled in University as a degree-seeking student.

Must be enrolled in the University as a degree-seeking or continuing education student.

Offers complete online Master’s degree. Must be enrolled in University as a degree-seeking student.

Offers complete online Master’s degree. Must be enrolled in University as a degree-seeking student.

Must be enrolled in the University as a degree-seeking student.

Offers complete online Master’s degree. Must be enrolled in University as a degree-seeking student.

Must be enrolled in the University as a degree-seeking student.