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- Jesse and Joyce reported that the E-Resources Working Group continues its regular communication and collaborative efforts, although their routine phone calls are less frequent. Colleen has gotten INTOTA to add the NERL Wiley database to their system, which benefits Cornell as well as Columbia. The group has also been talking about usage and assessment of e-resources, including the COUNT-IT workflow, which may turn into a 2CUL project.
- Mark explained that although three of the four 2CUL teams with which he's involved no longer have regular, routine contact, Columbia continues to consult with Cornell regarding initiatives such as Cornell's authorities browse in Blacklight, the recent Summon upgrade, and how we're all handling the front-end interface for databases.
- Kate remarked that Jason Kovari has helped to set up a Cornell Vitro instance for Columbia's Amber Billey for our collaborative Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project to develop the RBMS linked-data vocabulary. Columbia and Cornell will be sending representatives to the next LD4P meeting in Washington DC at the end of this month. The Columbia and Cornell Metadata Working Groups continue to broadcast and attend each other's programs – most recently the presentations on Columbia's Promoting Access to Research and Collaboration (PARC) program and Cornell's "Linked Data Reality Check." Along with Harvard and Brown, 2CUL has been talking about better pricing models for ISNI. As current Chair of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), Kate is planning the appointment of a PCC advisory committee on moving from MARC to linked data, with Steven Folsom as chair – an idea that originated within 2CUL technical services while Steven was still at Cornell. Naun added that our 2015 plan to share BIBFRAME expertise and training together is likely to materialize after our LD4P work begins.
- Sarah plans to continue her lobbying for better East Asia Asian e-serial records. A cooperative cataloging project group meeting will be held at the Council of on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) meeting later this month. She The group is recommending moving away from Serials Solutions toward getting records for the Chinese Academic Journals from the University of Hong Kong . Libraries. Participating catalogers will then perform maintenance as needed. She may ask Cornell for help with this arrangement.
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