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.
- 24 February 2022, 1PM-2PM (Eastern US) (Time zone converter). Registration link. Developing a Sinopia front end
- 24 March 2022, 1PM-2PM (Eastern US) (Time zone converter). Registration link. Templates and the PCC Metadata Application Profile Working Group, with T.J. Kao and Nancy Lorimer
- 28 April 2022, 1PM-2PM (Eastern US) (Time zone converter). Registration link. Conversion of data to/from Sinopia with Justin Littman and Jeremy Nelson.
- 26 May 2022, 1PM-2PM (Eastern US) (Time zone converter). Registration link. Question Authority and controlled vocabulary management in Sinopia with Dave Eichmann, Steven Folsom, and Lynette Rayle.
- 16 June 2022, 1PM-2PM (Eastern US) (Time zone converter). Registration link. Topic TBD
Past calls
- 27 January 2022. Sinopia usability with Astrid Usong. RECORDING
- 16 December 2021. Non-Latin scripts in Sinopia with Larisa Walsh (University of Chicago) and Patricia Thurston (Yale University) RECORDING SLIDES
- 18 November 2021. Sinopia, LD4, and the PCC. Michelle Futornick (Sinopia Product Owner, Stanford University) and Melanie Wacker (PCC Chair, Columbia University). Recording. Slides (Futornick)
- 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.
- 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 and in the Google Drive folder
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:
- Library of Congress BIBFRAME resource page
