OCLC is experimenting with the 856 field in MARC records for cataloging the URLS of e-documents. See OCLC's own homepage or go directly to the page relating to the Internet Cataloging Project. Excerpted discussions from the listserv AUTOCAT about the 856 field are appended below.
There is also a listserv devoted to the topic of cataloging sources on
the Net: To subscribe, send email to
Finally, there is a working prototype of an Internet catalog --
currently awaiting secure funding. Alex contains records
for both
ink-on-paper materials about the Net as well as online files. Go to the
prototype
Alex,
an Internet catalog.
From LISTSERV@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu Sun Apr 2 17:00:46 1995
Date: Subject: File: "DATABASE OUTPUT"
> Search 856 in autocat
--> Database AUTOCAT, 132 hits.
>>> Item number 19036, dated 95/02/10 10:57:04 -- ALL This message is cross posted to several lists. Please pardon
the duplicates.
As I mentioned in December 94, the hypertext version of the
Internet Resources for Cataloging will be announced when it is
done. Thanks for Louis Rosenfeld, the President of the Argus
Associates, Inc., who made this hypertext version available on
the University of Michigan Libraries WWW server.
The URL for the HTML version is:
http://asa.ugl.lib.umich.edu/chdocs/libcat/libcat.html
The access was tested via Mosaic only. If you find any
problems accessing the document via Lynx and Netscape, please
notify me through email: SHA@LAW.MISSOURI.EDU
Your comments are always welcome and appreciated.
Following is the introduction section of the INET guide ver.
3.01 and hypertext ver. 1.0. Access methods to ver. 3.01 of the
guide are listed at the end of the Introduction section.
Acknowledgements: What's in this guide? What's New? Where to send comments? How to access this guide? Gopher to University of Michigan Libraries, follow the path:
Contents of the ULibrary Gopher Telnet una.hh.lib.umich.edu FTP una.hh.lib.umich.edu Vianne Sha Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 11:25:29 CST This message is cross posted to AUTOCAT and LAW-LIB email
lists.
A new guide "Library Cataloging: Internet Resources" is
available on University of Michigan Libraries Gopher now. The
purpose of this guide is to list selected cataloging-related
resources as a reference for the catalogers to explore the
Internet. The new USMARC 856 field was added to each source as
the location and access information. Comments, additions, and
modifications are welcome to make this guide more comprehensive.
Please send your suggestions to Vianne Sha,
TANG@LAW.MISSOURI.EDU. Revisions will be made in the future to
keep this list as useful as possible to the cataloging staff.
Access to the Guide:
URL: Gopher://gopher.lib.umich.edu/00/Contents of ULibrary
Gopher/Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides (UMich)/Guides
on the Social Sciences/Library Cataloging
>>> Item number 18868, dated 95/02/03 12:55:08 -- ALL Are there any libraries out there that are using the 856 field
for electronic location and access? I'm especially curious about
the potential for a direct link between online catalogs and the
Internet, and how this MARC field might play into the equation.
Are there any existing systems that would allow Internet
resources to be interfiled with any other media (books, video,
etc...), and that would permit a patron who was browsing the
catalog to directly access a cataloged Internet resource at the
push of a button?
I vaguely recall a similar discussion on this list from last
fall, and apologize if this question has already been addressed.
Thanks, >>> Item number 19043, dated 95/02/10 15:15:00 -- ALL I have developed a draft policy for cataloging Internet
resources for our library and the OCLC "Building a catalog for
Internet-accessible materials" project. Following is the
preliminary guidelines. Please either reply to the list or send
me your comments if you don't think any of them make sense. I
think we should share our cataloging priorities and policies for
the electronic resources, so that we can reduce duplicate and
incorrect bibliographic records in the national bibliographic
utilities for the same electronic materials. I would like to ask
specifically those who participate in the OCLC "Building a
catalog for Internet-accessible materials" project to response
and make comments. Thanks.
GUIDELINES FOR CATALOGING ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
1. Cataloging Priorities:-
A) Organize and catalog electronic resources owned and
maintained by the local system.
B) Organize and catalog significant research materials that
have strong interests for the local patrons.
C) Organize and catalog significant tools that can improve
reference services.
D) Organize and catalog significant tools that can update the
knowledge and improve the skills of the library staff.
2. Cataloging Policies:-
A) Electronic materials are divided into two types: B) Catalog all A1 as monographs.
C) Catalog A2 resources as serials if they are electronic
serials and if the individual documents show intention of future
updates (eg. ver. 1.0); catalog other A2 resources as monographs.
D) If the location of the electronic resources tend to change
frequently, catalog only the systems and services, indicating
specific directories and/or files on $3 of each 856 field.
E) Catalog all versions (such as HTML, ASCII) of the
electronic documents on one serial record, using separate 856
fields for different versions.
F) If both the system and an individual directory or file are
cataloged, include either 580 or 773 field in the record for the
individual directory or file.
>>> Item number 19601, dated 95/03/07 10:49:48 -- ALL This message is being posted to several lists; please excuse
any duplication.
The Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library
of Congress has prepared guidelines for LC catalogers on the use
of field 856. This document may also be of interest to others
implementing this new field for electronic location and access.
It includes general input guidelines, a current description of
the field (including Feb. 1995 MARBI changes), and examples of
how it has been used at LC.
The document is available through the USMARC list archives and
through LC-MARVEL: Item number 13457, dated 94/05/13 09:47:38 -- ALL A month or so back, I requested sources to learn about
cataloging internet files. Some of you asked that I report back
about the citations I received. Here they are:
Dillon, Martin, et al. 1993. "Assessing information on the
Internet: Toward providing library services for computer-mediated
communication." Dublin, OH: OCLC.
Hockey, S. "Developing access to electronic text in the
humanities" Computers in Libraries, V. 13 p. 41-43 Fall 1993.
Intner, S. "Our electronic heritage- here today, gone
tomorrow?" Technicalities 12:9-12 March 1992.
Leahy, S. and Smith, R. J. "A suggested guide and comments for
cataloging electronic files..." Technicalities 12:8-11, Oct.
1992.
McGrath, E. "Cataloging legal databases available through
LEXIS" Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 15:no.1:3-26,
1992.
Sarah Bryan From LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Sat Apr 15 07:47:10 1995 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 17:58:15 -0500 The following is an obvious idea, but since I haven't found
any
discussion of it I thought I'd write it up. I'd appreciate
comments.
INTERNET CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION
In his introduction to the Alex system, Hunter Monroe argues
forcefully that there should be one and only one authoritative
catalogue record for each document on the Internet. From this he
concludes that those catalogue records must be maintained in a
single,
centralized location. This conclusion seems to me unwarranted,
both
practically and theoretically. On practical grounds, no single
organization, not even the OCLC nor the Library of Congress, has
the
resources to catalogue *every* document on the Internet in a
timely
fashion, especially not for free. Am I really to request a MARC
record
from a central authority when I go to put my eleven-year-old's
home
page on the net? And philosophically, I think most Internet
afficionados will agree that distributed, self-organizing systems
are
preferrable to those with central control.
It seems to me that the right paradigm here is the
Cataloguing-in-Publication model. Granted that there should be a
single catalogue record per publication, I would argue that the
right
place for that record is alongside the publication itself. This
makes
it immediately available to anyone with access to the document it
describes. Just as CIP makes it trivially easy to obtain
bibliographic
information on books, Internet CIP would make bibliographic
information on Internet documents available for the asking.
Internet CIP would have many advantages. A new class of
3smart2 worms
could take over the task of generating subject-oriented
catalogues of
net resources - a task that is currently done manually, with much
duplicated effort, by a wide variety of amateurs using a methods
that
range from the purely ad hoc (e.g. Yahoo) to the library-inspired
(e.g. WWLib, Bubl). Smart downloaders could automatically file
downloaded documents in the correct place.
ENGINEERING DECISIONS
Implementing ICIP presents some interesting design choices.
Home pages, for instance, have no equivalent to the copyright
pages
where it is so natural to place CIP for books. Should the ICIP
data go
in a separate file, or be appended to the main document?
There is no need in book CIP to furnish the MARC record, since
hard
copy isn't machine- readable, but the same is not true of
electronic
documents: should the ICIP data be in MARC format, in
presentation
format, or both?
How should automatic retrieval of ICIP records be implemented?
There
is a lot to be said for implementing it at the server level; this
would facilitate batch retrieval, authentication, and quality
control. On the other hand, I think it essential that document
publishers be allowed to furnish their own ICIP data, and
certainly
for the time being a uniform client-based convention is all that
can
be hoped for.
The design I am currently implementing for my own documents
places
USMARC records for my entire site in a single file. At the end of
each
document I place a ICIP data in human- readable format, along
with a
link to the USMARC file.
David A. Mundie
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 10:57:04 -0600
Reply-To: "AUTOCAT: Library cataloging and authorities
discussion group"
Vianne Sha
Sender: "AUTOCAT: Library
cataloging and authorities discussion group"
From: Vianne Sha
Subject: INET Guide for Cataloging ver. 3.01 and the
HyperText X-To: usmarc@loc.gov, law-lib@ucdavis.edu,
pacs-l@uhupvm1.uh.edu, serialst@uvmvm.uvm.edu
I want to thank Rebecca S. Guenther, LC's Senior MARC Standards
Specialist, for her responses to my questions about the 856
field. I would also like to thank Erik Jul, Communications
Manager, Office of Research of the OCLC, Inc., Susan M. Rabe,
Collection Resources Bibliographer of the Center for Research
Libraries, and Ann Ercelawn, Serials Cataloger, University of
Vanderbilt, for sending me suggestions and correct access
information of some resources in this guide to make this document
more comprehensive and accurate.
This guide covers description and location information of
cataloging-related Internet resources in sections: (A). National
Libraries; (B). Professional Associations; (C). National
bibliographic utilities; (D). Local library systems; (E).
Cataloging tools and training resources; (F). Cataloging-related
software; (G) Appendix - Outline of the USMARC format 856 field;
and, (H). References.
Changes proposed in USMARC proposal no. 95-1 are incorporated
into the 856 fields of this guide. Three new subsections are
added to this version. National Library of Medicine and National
Agricultural Library are appended to section (A) to form the new
section "National Libraries". Another new subsection is
Cataloging of Electronic Resources appended to section (E).
Moreover, some sections are reorganized to include new resources.
Comments, suggestions, additions, and modifications are welcome.
Please send them to Vianne Sha, SHA@LAW.MISSOURI.EDU. If you
create or compile any cataloging resource on Internet that you
want to share with other library staff, you are also welcome to
send either the URL or the host and path of the resource to me.
I will include it in the next revision.
URL:
gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu:70/00/inetdirsstacks/libcat:sha
(*** "libcat3%asha" instead of "libcat:sha" for Mosaic or
Netscape ***)
Keyword Search (Type "SUBJECT ORIENTED")
Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
Guides on the Social Sciences
Library Cataloging
Login: gopher
Hit [ENTER] (DON'T input any unique name or SSN)
Follow the path:
Contents of the Ulibrary Gopher
Keyword Search (Type "SUBJECT ORIENTED")
Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
Guides on the Social Sciences
Library Cataloging
Username: anonymous
Password: your email address
Type: cd inetdirsstacks
Type: get libcat:sha
Type: quit (to exit)
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Subject: New INET Resource Guide for Cataloging
X-To: LAW-LIB@UCDAVIS.EDU
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 12:55:08 CST
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Sender: "AUTOCAT: Library cataloging and authorities
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From: Arrowhead Library System
Subject: 856 and the Internet
Brad
Arrowhead Library System
Virginia, Minn.
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 15:15:00 -0600
Reply-To: "AUTOCAT: Library cataloging and authorities
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Vianne Sha
Sender: "AUTOCAT: Library
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From: Vianne Sha
Subject: Re: ?how to catalog on the internet -Reply
(1) Systems and services, including all directories and
subdirectories that contain more than one single bibliographic
entity.
(2) Individual directories, subdirectories, and files that
contain only one single bibliographic entity.
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 10:49:48 -0500
Reply-To: "AUTOCAT: Library cataloging and authorities
discussion group"
"Rebecca S. Guenther"
Sender: "AUTOCAT: Library cataloging and authorities
discussion group"
From: "Rebecca S. Guenther"
Subject: Guidelines for use of field 856
X-To: usmarc@loc.gov, emedia@vax1.elon.edu,
intercat@oclc.org
telnet to marvel.loc.gov
Login: marvel
No password needed
Select: Libraries and Publishers (Technical Services)
Select: USMARC Standards
Select: USMARC Documentation
Select: Field 856 (Electronic Location and Access) Guidelines
(It is also accessible under Libraries and Publishers (Technical
Services); Cataloging at Library of Congress; Library of Congress
Cataloging Policy and Practice.)
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 09:47:38 CST
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group"
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From: Sarah Bryan
Subject: Bibliography on cataloging internet files
Cataloging Librarin
Torreyson Library
University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR 72035
(501) 450-5231
sarahb@cc1.uca.edu
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 00:03:24 -0400
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