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Charge
Under the guidance of the PCC Policy Committee, the Standing Committee on Standards:
- Develops and recommends standards, policies, and application profiles that support the creation, maintenance, and use of metadata in a high-impact and cost-effective manner
- Works with the Standing Committee on Training to promote adoption of standards, and to identify and address areas in those standards requiring elucidation or revision
- Partners with the Standing Committee on Applications and other relevant PCC groups to monitor developments in metadata practice and propose areas for investigation by PCC
- Collaborates with PCC groups and external partners to ensure a unified response to metadata issues arising from the full range of PCC activities
Membership
| Member | Term | Title and Institutional Affiliation | Contact | Current SCS Activities | Professional Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kevin Balster | First term ends: Sept. 30, 2027 | Continuing Resources Management Team Leader UCLA | CONSER Liaison | NASIG: Standards Committee ALA/Core ELUNA: Community Zone Management Group | |
Peter Fletcher | First term ends: Sept. 30, 2028 | International Team Leader, Cyrillic Catalog Librarian UCLA | Advisory Committee for Library Systems and Vendors (SCS Liaison) | MAC Liaison to Subject Analysis Committee Member: Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Materials (Core) | |
Hope Harley (SkyRiver Liaison) | n/a | Product Manager SkyRiver | |||
Matthew Haugen | Second term ends: Sept. 30, 2026 | Rare Book Cataloger Columbia University | PCC Task Group on Vocabularies, Languages, and Scripts Related to Indigenous Peoples of the Americas (SCS Representative) | ||
Kate James (OCLC Liaison) | n/a | Program Coordinator-Metadata Engagement, Global Product Management OCLC | |||
Ivan Kaproth-Joslin (Co-Chair) | First term ends: Sept. 30, 2026 | Catalog Librarian Eastman School of Music | PCC Task Group on Organization of PCC Documentation (Chair, SCS Representative) | Member: Vocabularies Subcommittee (Music Library Association, Cataloging and Metadata Committee) | |
| Junghae Lee | First term ends: Sept. 30, 2026 | E-Resources Metadata Librarian University of Washington | jlee70@uw.edu | SCS Task Group on Privacy in NARs (Co-chair) | Library of Congress Genre/Form Heading (LCGFT) Advisory Group (OLAC Liaison) Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC): OLAC Best Practices Maintenance Committee; OLAC Cataloging Policy Committee (CAPC) |
| Michelle Mascaro | First term ends: Sept. 30, 2028 | Head, Special Collections Metadata University of California, San Diego | mmascaro@ucsd.edu | Metadata Guidance Documentation Maintenance Subgroup | |
| Honor Moody (no longer with SCS) | Second term concluded Sept. 30, 2025 | Metadata Creation Manager Harvard University | honor_moody@harvard.edu | PCC Task Group on URIs in MARC Implementation and Support (SCS Liaison) | |
| Kevin Randall | Second term ends: Sept. 30, 2028 | Principal Serials Cataloger Northwestern University | kmr@northwestern.edu | SCS Task Group on CONSER Policies for Official RDA in MARC (SCS Liaison) | |
Jacquie Samples (Co-Chair) | First term ends: Sept. 30, 2027 | Head, Metadata Systems and Initiatives Department Collections Services Division, Duke University Libraries | Metadata Guidance Documentation Maintenance Subgroup | ||
| Naomi Shiraishi | First term ends: Sept. 30, 2027 | Japanese Cataloging Librarian C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley | nshiraishi@berkeley.edu | SCS Task Group on Evaluation Guidelines for Non-Latin Script References in NARs | Member: Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) Chair: Electronic Resources Metadata Standard Best Practices (ERMB) (term ends March 2026) |
| Elisa Sze | First term ends: Sept. 30, 2028 | Metadata Librarian University of Toronto | elisa.sze@utoronto.ca | Metadata Guidance Documentation Maintenance Subgroup | |
| Chris Tangeman | First term ends: Sept. 30, 2028 | Special Collections Cataloger University of Dayton | ctangeman1@udayton.edu | ||
| Manon Théroux (LC Liaison) | n/a | Cataloging Policy Specialist Library of Congress | mther@loc.gov | PCC Working Group on Metadata Application Profiles (LC Representative) PCC Task Group on Organization of PCC Documentation (LC Representative) | |
| Chairity Waugh | First term ends: Sept. 30, 2028 | Technical Services Librarian Louisiana State University | cwaugh3@lsu.edu | ||
| William C. (Hank) Young | Second term ends: Sept. 30, 2028 | Principal Cataloger University of Florida | wilyoun@uflib.ufl.edu | PCC Liaison to CC:DA |
Calendar
Current SCS Task Groups and Working Groups
- PCC Working Group on Metadata Application Profiles
- Non-Latin Script Variants in NARs Task Group
- SCS Task Group on Provider Neutral MARC Record Guidelines for Monographic E-Resources in Official RDA
Past SCS Task Groups and Working Groups
- SCS Task Group on CONSER Policies for Official RDA in MARC
- SCS Task Group on Evaluation Guidelines for Non-Latin Script References in NARs
SCS Projects
SCS Reports
- SCS Report to OpCo, May 2021
- SCS Report to OpCo, May 2022
- SCS Report to PoCo, November 2022
- SCS Report to OpCo, May 2023
- SCS Report to PoCo, November 2023
- SCS Report to OpCo, May 2024
- SCS Periodic Review, September 2024
SCS FAQs
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