Purpose
The PCC Sinopia Cataloging Affinity Group provides a welcoming, collaborative, and supportive space to learn and discuss cataloging in Sinopia using PCC Sinopia Templates, PCC cataloging standards, and PCC authoritative vocabularies. The group aims to:
- Expand the use of Sinopia in the PCC community, contributing to the development of a body of original cataloging in a linked data context
- Influence the future development of Sinopia by coordinating feedback from PCC users to the Sinopia development team, and by serving as a community of users for usability interviews and testing
- Provide input on the creation and evolution of PCC Sinopia Templates
- Identify training needs of new PCC Sinopia Users
- Explore how to cooperate effectively in a linked data cataloging environment
Calls
- 23 September 2021, 1PM-2PM Eastern U.S. (Time zone converter). Zoom link TBD. Topic TBD
- 28 October 2021, 1PM-2PM Eastern U.S. (Time zone converter). Zoom link TBD. Topic TBD
- 18 November 2021, 1PM-2PM Eastern U.S. (Time zone converter). Zoom link TBD. Topic TBD
- 16 December 2021, 1PM-2PM Eastern U.S. (Time zone converter). Zoom link TBD. Topic TBD
Past calls
- Thurs. 26 August 2021, 1PM-2PM Eastern U.S. (Time zone converter) Walkthrough of the PCC Serials templates in Sinopia.
- Monday, July 19, 2021 - 3:00-4:30pm EST/12:00-1:30pm PST (time zone converter)
- Recording
- LD4 2021 Conference Session Sinopia in the PCC Context: Intro and Study Group (LD4 conference registration required, but is free of charge. Details at the link)
- This session will serve as the first meeting of the PCC Sinopia Cataloging Affinity Group. Designed for PCC catalogers working in Sinopia, the session will introduce attendees to the use of PCC profiles and standards in Sinopia and to allow time to practice and review creating descrip tions with the PCC profiles and following PCC standards. The session will begin with an overview of the available resources including training modules and the newly founded Affinity Group. Prior to the session, we will provide sample practice material that can be reviewed in the session and also will provide a starting point for any questions regarding PCC profiles and PCC standards within Sinopia.
- Running notes document
Working Hours
- Thurs. 16 Sept. 2021, 1PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration link (Zoom). Theme: descriptions for basic print monographs, ideally monolingual. Use a book you have at your desk, or feel free to create a description based on a record in OCLC or your local catalog
General Information
Co-Facilitators: Timothy Ryan Mendenhall, seeking second facilitator - please contact Mary Seem (seem@frick.org) if interested
Teacher/Trainer: Greta de Groat
- Dedicated, open Google group for announcements and discussion
- Running notes document for collaborative note-taking during meetings
- Shared Google Drive folder (contains slides, meeting notes, and other relevant resources)
- Draft of questions regarding best practices for monographs using the PCC Monographs templates
- Draft of questions regarding best practices for serials using the PCC Serials templates
- Meetings are recorded and links to the recordings can be found in the meeting notes
Resources
- Sinopia help page
- PCC's Sinopia Training Modules
- Sinopia Linked Data Editor – request a free account here. Sinopia is browser-based and requires no installation. NOTE: for the Affinity Group, we are using the Stage (test) instance of Sinopia, not the production instance.
- LD4 Slack (separate from this PCC group, but a valuable resource on Sinopia). Useful channels within this Slack group include:
- Library of Congress BIBFRAME resource page
PCC Sinopia Cataloging Affinity Group Working Hours
- TBD
