Organizations
ACA. Association of Canadian Archivists
Recognizing the diversity of the Canadian archival community and its organizations, the ACA envisions a dynamic, well educated, and well informed information profession, strategically positioned to ensure the preservation and accessibility of Canada's information resources and its documentary heritage, the public's appreciation of those resources and that heritage, and the role of the Canadian archival community in its preservation and accessibility.
ALA. American Library Association
The oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 64,000 members. Its mission is to promote the highest quality library and information services and public access to information. Membership open to library workers and advocates. Offers professional services and publications to members and nonmembers.
ALA ALCTS CCS. ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section
Under this section are committees focusing on Description and Access (CC:DA), Subject Analysis (SAC), Education, Training, and Recruitment, Research and Publications, Asian and African materials, etc., as well as Discussion Groups for Catalog Management, Cataloging and Classification Research, Cataloging Norms, Copy Cataloging, and Heads of Cataloging Departments.
ALA ALCTS CCS CC:DA. ALA ALCTS CCS Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access
The Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) is the body within the American Library Association responsible for developing official ALA positions on additions to and revisions of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition, 2002 Revision.
ALA LITA. ALA Library & Information Technology Association
The ALA Division concerned with the design, development, and implementation of automated and technological systems in the library and information science field. LITA members work in all types of institutions and library decision-makers, practitioners, information professionals and vendors. LITA has Committees on Education, International Relations, Legislation & Regulation, Technology & Access, and Top Technology Trends, as well as Interest Groups for Authority Control, Digital Library Technologies, Distance Learning, Emerging Technologies, Human/Machine Interface, Technology & the Arts, and many others.
ALA MARBI. ALA MAchine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee
MARBI is an interdivisional Joint Committee (ALCTS, LITA, RUSA), the body within the American Library Association responsible for developing official ALA positions on standards for the representation in machine-readable form of bibliographic information. MARBI focuses its attention on the development of the MARC format.
AMIA. Association of Moving Image Archivists
AMIA's mission is to advance the field of moving image archiving by fostering cooperation among individuals and organizations concerned with the acquisition, preservation, description, exhibition and use of moving image materials.
The AMIA Cataloging Committee provides a forum for discussion of cataloging issues. In the course of its work, the Committee facilitates the exchange of information through programs and publications, promotes the use of existing national standards for the cataloging of archival moving image materials, advises the appropriate standard making bodies on cataloging standards and issues, creates new cataloging standards, provides education and information on cataloging practices, and establishes liaisons with related organizations.
AMIA. Digital Initiatives Committee
The Digital Initiatives Committee is a mechanism for identifying key issues, contributing expertise, and implementing special projects that lead to recommended practices for digital concerns that impact the archival moving image and audio field.
ASI. American Society of Indexers
ASI is the only professional organization in the United States devoted solely to the advancement of indexing, abstracting, and database building.
AV Trust. AV Preservation Trust
Dedicated to increasing Canadians’ awareness of their rich and distinctive heritage in moving images and sound.
BCA. Bureau of Canadian Arhcivists
The objective of the BCA is to ensure the professional development of Canadian archivists who are members of the Association des archivistes du Québec and the Association of Canadian Archivists.
CCA. Canadian Council of Archives
The objective of the CCA is to preserve Canada's national heritage by improving the administration, effectiveness and efficiency of the country's archival system.
CCA CCAD. Canadian Committee on Archival Description
Primarily responsible for the maintenance and revision of the Canadian Rules for Archival Description (RAD) this CCA Committee is also involved in other areas surrounding archival description.
CCAAA. Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations
"CCAAA provides a shared platform for seven membership based organisations wishing to co-operate on influencing the development of public policy on issues of importance to professional audiovisual archivists."
DS. Cataloging Distribution Service
CHIN. Canadian Heritage Information Network
CHIN and Canadian museums work together to strengthen Canada's collective ability to create, present and manage Canadian digital content.
DCMI. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
An open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups, global workshops, conferences, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.
FIAF. International Federation of Film Archives (Féderation Internationale des Archives du Film)
FIAF brings together institutions dedicated to rescuing films both as cultural heritage and as historical documents.
FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission
The Cataloguing and Documentation Commission’s mission is to promote the exchange of information, expertise, and materials among FIAF colleagues and others in the areas of film cataloging and of documentation related to the cinema.
An international professional association established to provide a means for co-operation amongst broadcast and national audiovisual archives and libraries concerned with the collection, preservation and exploitation of moving image and recorded sound materials and associated documentation.
IASA. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
IASA was established in 1969 in Amsterdam to function as a medium for international co-operation between archives that preserve recorded sound and audiovisual documents.
IASA Cataloguing and Documentation Committee
The Cataloguing and Documentation Committee concerns itself with standards and rules as well as with systems, automated or manual, for the documentation and cataloguing of audiovisual media
ICA. International Council on Archives
ICA's mission is towards the advancement of archives worldwide.
ICA. Committee on Descriptive Standards
The Committee promotes and makes possible the exchange of information on archival material at the international level by specifying requirements for standards related to archival description that are acceptable to national archival administrations and the international archival profession.
IFLA. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Founded in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1927, IFLA is the leading international body that represents the interests of library and information services and their users.
Proposes and develops cataloging rules, guidelines and standards for bibliographic information, taking into account the developing electronic and networked environment in order to promote universal access to and exchange of bibliographic and authority information.
IMAP. Independent Media Arts Preservation
Organized in 1999, IMAP is a nonprofit service, education, and advocacy consortium to ensure the preservation of independent electronic media for cultural and educational use by future generations. IMAP works with collections found in museums, arts centers, artists' spaces, dance and theater companies, libraries, university departments, non-profit distributors, public television stations, and with individual artists or producers. The site includes: "Preservation 101", an introduction to the issues surrounding media preservation; a healthy listing of resources at other sites; as well as information on the workshops they offer.
JSC. Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of Anglo-American Cataloging Rules
The body responsible for revisions to AACR2. Current activities encompass incorporating principles underlying AACR2, FRBR terminology, and general material designations.
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with nearly 128 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 57 million manuscripts.
Provides leadership to the library and information communities in the development of cataloging theory and practice.
LC CDS. Cataloging and Distribution Service
The publishing arm of the Library of Congress. The source for Library of Congress cataloging and authority records, archival moving image cataloging rules, Library of Congress Rule Interpretations for AACR2, etc.
LC CPSO. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
The Cataloging Policy and Support Office's mission is to provide leadership in the creation and implementation of cataloging policy within the Library of Congress and in the national and international library community; support the effectiveness of the cataloging staff at the Library of Congress through guidance, advice on cataloging policy and maintenance of bibliographic, authority, and classification records; develop and support national and international standards for structure and content of bibliographic, authority, and classification records through cooperative endeavors.
LC. MBRS. Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division
Responsible for the acquisition, cataloging and preservation of the motion picture and television collections of the Library of Congress. Operates the
Motion Picture and Television Reading Room to provide access and information services to an international community of film and television professionals, archivists, scholars and researchers.
MLA. Music Library Association
MLA is the professional organization in the United States devoted to music librarianship and all aspects of music materials in libraries.
MLA. Bibliographic Control Committee
MLA is the professional organization in the United States devoted to music librarianship and all aspects of music materials in libraries.
The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The Open Archives Initiative has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication. Continued support of this work remains a cornerstone of the Open Archives program. The fundamental technological framework and standards that are developing to support this work are, however, independent of the both the type of content offered and the economic mechanisms surrounding that content, and promise to have much broader relevance in opening up access to a range of digital materials. As a result, the Open Archives Initiative is currently an organization and an effort explicitly in transition, and is committed to exploring and enabling this new and broader range of applications. As we gain greater knowledge of the scope of applicability of the underlying technology and standards being developed, and begin to understand the structure and culture of the various adopter communities, we expect that we will have to make continued evolutionary changes to both the mission and organization of the Open Archives Initiative.
OCLC. Online Computer Library Corporation
A nonprofit, membership, library computer service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs.
OLAC. Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc.
OLAC provides a means for exchange of information, continuing education, and communication among catalogers of audiovisual materials and with the Library of Congress. While maintaining a voice with the bibliographic utilities that speak for catalogers of audiovisual materials, OLAC works toward common understanding of AV cataloging practices and standards.
OLAC CaPC. OLAC Cataloging Policy Committee
Represents the concerns of audiovisual materials catalogers in matters relating to the formation, interpretation and implementation of national and international cataloging standards and related matters.
PCC. Program for Cooperative Cataloging
The Program for Cooperative Cataloging is an international cooperative effort aimed at expanding access to library collections by providing useful, timely, and cost-effective cataloging that meets mutually-accepted standards of libraries around the world. Its component programs include NACO (name authority), SACO (subject authority), and BIBCO (bibliographic record
RLG is a not-for-profit membership corporation of over 160 universities, national libraries, archives, historical societies, and other institutions with remarkable collections for research and learning. Rooted in collaborative work that addresses members' shared goals for these collections, RLG develops and operates information resources used by members and nonmembers around the world.
SAA. Society of American Archivists
Founded in 1936, SAA's mission is to serve the educational and informational needs of its members and provide leadership to help ensure the identification, preservation, and use of the historical record of the United States.
The SAA Description Section provides a forum for the exchange of information and ideas about all aspects of archival description among those responsible for, involved in, or interested in description projects, descriptive standards, and descriptive systems.
SAA Encoded Archival Description Round Table
Supports the development and evolution of this emerging descriptive standard for electronic finding aids.
SAA Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards
The Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards (TSDS) is responsible for developing, maintaining, monitoring, and promulgating standards used by archivists' to describe their holdings. This includes descriptive standards developed within the SAA as well as those developed outside the archival community.
SAA VM. Visual Materials Section
The SAA group for archivists who administer (collect, arrange, preserve, describe and interpret) still photographs, moving images, art, and graphic materials.
SAA VMCART. Visual Materials Cataloging and Access Roundtable
The SAA group which provides a forum for archivists with visual collections to discuss cataloging and access issues.
SLA. Special Libraries Association
SLA promotes and strengthens its members through learning, advocacy, and networking initiatives.
SLA Information Technology Division
The Information Technology Division encompasses the planning, development, and practical application of existing and new technologies and systems for the processing and control of information, in any subject discipline and in any form, for its eventual retrieval and use convenient to the requester.
ViDe. Video Development Initiative
ViDe promotes the deployment of digital video in research and higher education. Leveraging our collective resources and expertise, ViDe advances digital video deployment through promotion and development of interoperable, standardized, and cost-effective technologies.
VRA. Visual Resources Association
VRA is a multi-disciplinary community of image management professionals working in educational and cultural heritage environments. The Association is committed to providing leadership in the field, developing and advocating standards, and providing educational tools and opportunities for its members.
The Data Standards Committee works to meet the visual resources community's growing need to manage complex visual collections in the networked environment, promoting standards that facilitate the management, organization, and exchange of information.
WC3. World Wide Web Consortium
By promoting interoperability and encouraging an open forum for discussion, W3C commits to leading the technical evolution of the Web.