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.

• Thurs. 22 September 1PM Eastern (Time zone converter). This brief talk will provide an introduction to Questioning Authority (a lookup service) and infrastructure set up under the auspices of LD4P3, the status of this service/infrastructure, and the outstanding questions about change management.  Speaker: Steven Folsom’s work focuses on sustainable metadata practices to aid in discovery and access of library collections. As a member of the Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) and Linked Data for Production (LD4P) series of Mellon Foundation funded grants, he participates in the development efforts of tools and data models meant to aid the adoption of linked data in libraries.
• Thurs. 27 October 1PM Easter (Time zone converter). Topic TBD. Registration link
• Thurs. 17 November. 1PM Easter (Time zone converter). Topic TBD. Registration link
• Thurs. 15 December 1PM Easter (Time zone converter). Topic TBD. Registration link

Past calls

• 14 July 2022: Demostration at the 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data. RECORDING SLIDES
• 16 June 2022 LD4 Rare Materials Affinity Group and Sinopia. RECORDING SLIDES
• 5 May 2022: Tutorial and working hour during PCC Operations Committee (OpCo). RECORDING
• 28 April 2022.  Conversion of data to/from Sinopia with Justin Littman and Jeremy Nelson. RECORDING
• 24 March 2022. Templates and the PCC Metadata Application Profile Working Group, with T.J. Kao and Nancy Lorimer RECORDING SLIDES
• 24 February 2022. Linked Data discovery: developing a linked data front-end with Huda Khan (Cornell) and Astrid Usong (Stanford). RECORDING
• 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.  See also the PCC Sinopia Mentorship page.

• Thurs. 4 August 2022 1PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration link
• Thurs. 1 September 1PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration link
• Thurs. 6 October 1PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration link
• Thurs. 3 November 1PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration link
• Thurs. 1 December 1PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration link

General Information

Co-Facilitators: Timothy Ryan Mendenhall (trm2151@columbia.edu),  Mary Seem (seem@frick.org), Margarita Perez Martinez (mperezm@law.miami.edu)

Teacher/Trainer: Greta de Groat (gdegroat@stanford.edu)

• 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
• PCC Sinopia Mentorship page
• Demonstration videos
  • Basic print monograph: work and instance (Feb. 2022, Sinopia 3.16.9)
  • Basic monograph: work, print instance, digital instance (Feb. 2022, Sinopia 3.16.9)
• 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