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With the November 2016 PCC Policy Committee 'agreement in principle' to seek a PCC umbrella membership in ISNI (original proposal that was endorsed), a PCC ISNI pilot has been proposed as the best way forward to explore the needs and issues that would arise for all parties (libraries, ISNI-IA and OCLC) when PCC metadata practitioners seek to incorporate ISNIs into their metadata workflows and pursue a wide range of ISNI use cases. The experience of having PCC metadata librarians working in ISNI would generate information for all parties to understand the characteristics (tools, services, workflows, training & documentation) necessary for a sustainable, affordable and effective long-range PCC membership agreement beyond the pilot.
Participation in the PCC ISNI pilot is being drawn from three segments of the PCC: library participants, Standing Committee representatives and the PCC Identity Management in NACO Task Group.
Background on the PCC
The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) has a long history of commitment to creating, maintaining and sharing high quality metadata, as well as creating the professional context to train and support its members in working efficiently together in a coordinated manner as a unified community. While members work within their local institutional contexts, they adhere to a common set of best practices and policies when undertaking work under the PCC umbrella. They are highly trained and dedicated metadata professionals that work together to arrive at workflow best practices that result in minimizing duplicated effort and maximizing our ability to share metadata outputs and expertise in support of information discovery.
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