tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post5016180419074976775..comments2023-09-29T08:51:56.163-07:00Comments on Coyle's InFormation: Copyright and MARCKaren Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519757456533839003noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post-996449966092120452008-04-01T12:44:00.000-07:002008-04-01T12:44:00.000-07:00Merrilee - thanks for the pointer to the SAA group...Merrilee - thanks for the pointer to the SAA group. At the CDL, we were really looking at this as a user service issue, which seems to be SAA's direction. I always felt like we were dangling tantalizing stuff in front on users and then not giving them a clue as to what they could do with it, nor how to find out. <BR/><BR/>And, yes, the MARC field will take a while to be implemented. But if you are creating metadata in XML, the copyrightMD schema is available for use right now. I'd be very interested to hear how it could be made usable at the collection level. It may need some new fields that address issues like "many creators". It does address "unknown" and "date estimated" kinds of issues, but there isn't a way to specify that those apply to a collection rather than the item the user is looking at.Karen Coylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02519757456533839003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post-6390570064970418822008-04-01T11:49:00.000-07:002008-04-01T11:49:00.000-07:00Karen, thanks for the review of the RLG Programs r...Karen, thanks for the review of the RLG Programs report, and for the additional comments. The addition of the MARC code is certainly useful, but it will be a while before it will be implemented in local systems (no?). <BR/><BR/>For those of us who work in with archival collections, the MARC record would give the collection- and perhaps series-level information. In the case of most manuscript collections, the creators of items within the collection will be quite diverse, ranging into the hundreds of creators. It is quite typical for individual creators to be unidentifiable, for the date of creation to be unclear, etc. Given the practice of treating a collection as a collection (and not as a bunch of items), this information on items is not available at the get-go of a digitization project. <BR/><BR/>I think you're right to suggest that we should be giving as much information to end users as possible, even if that is "we don't know, and here are reasonable steps you can take to explore more." The SAA Intellectual Property Working Group is working up such guidelines now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com