PCC Sinopia Cataloging Affinity Group

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

Calls feature presentations on specific topics in Sinopia.  For recordings, see the Past calls section below.  For notes, consult the Running notes document.

• 18 November 2021, 1PM-2PM (Eastern US) (Time zone converter).  Registration link. Michelle Futornick (Sinopia Product Owner, Stanford University) will discuss the history of Sinopia and LD4.  Melanie Wacker (PCC Chair, Columbia University) will cover the history of the PCC's involvement with Sinopia and LD4.
• 16 December 2021, 1PM-2PM (Eastern US) (Time zone converter).  Registration link. Larisa Walsh (University of Chicago) and Patricia Thurston (Yale University), current co-chairs of the LD4 Non-Latin Scripts Affinity Group, will offer a presentation and demonstration of best practices for entering non-Latin script data into Sinopia descriptions.
• 27 January 2022, 1PM-2PM (Eastern US) (Time zone converter). Registration link. Tentative: Sinopia usability with Astrid Usong
• 24 February 2022, 1PM-2PM (Eastern US) (Time zone converter). Registration link. Tentative: Developing a Sinopia front end

Past calls

• 28 October 2021: Nancy Lorimer (Stanford) on the Intersection of Sinopia, BIBFRAME, and RDA/LRM: points of convergence and divergence. Recording.  Slides
• 23 September 2021.  Beth Picknally Camden: Overview of the PCC Sinopia training modules, and how new Sinopia users can use them to get started with Sinopia. Recording
• Thurs. 26 August 2021 Walkthrough of the PCC Serials templates in Sinopia. Recording
• 19 July 2021: LD4 2021 Conference Session Sinopia in the PCC Context: Intro and Study Group : introduction to PCC profiles in Sinopia and a walkthrough of the PCC Monographs template in Sinopia. Recording

Working Hours

A dedicated space to work on creating descriptions in Sinopia and learn from colleagues while you do it.  As always, if you're not sure what resource to describe during the working hour, we have some ideas in this document.

• 11 November 2021, 1PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration link
• 2 December 2021, 1PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration link
• 6 January 2022, 1PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration link
• 3 February 2022, 1PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration link
• 3 March 2022, 1PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration link
• 7 April 2022, 1PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration link
• 5 May 2022, 1PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration link
• 2 June 2022, 1PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration link

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

• Running notes document for the group's calls
• Sinopia help page: Report bugs and other issues with the Sinopia application here
• 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:
  • LD4 Sinopia Slack channel
  • LD4 Profile Slack channel
• Library of Congress BIBFRAME resource page