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Metadata & Cataloging Committee

Metadata & Cataloging Committee

 

The Committee works on issues of comics cataloging and metadata. Current and past projects include: the cataloging guidance document Best Practices for Cataloging Comics and Graphic Novels; and a joint working group with the ALA CORE Subject Analysis Committee proposing revisions to Library of Congress' Subject Headings Manual instruction H 1430 (pertaining to cataloging comics). Other future initiatives may include, but are not limited to: comics classification surveys; a Wikidata comics project; Wikipedia edit-a-thons to establish titles, authors, characters, topics, etc.; comics subject and genre proposal suggest-a-thons and SACO/NACO projects; cataloging outreach; comics-related "Relationship Elements" for the RDA Registry; and so on.

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