The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) aims to reduce costs associated with producing bibliographic and authority records to support discovery within public catalogs. The PCC meets this aim by developing metadata application profiles and implementing an apprenticeship-style training scheme within its global membership. The PCC launched a new program in spring 2025, the Entity Management Cooperative (EMCO). The EMCO program aims to empower library staff to manage linked data entities from any source for use in descriptive metadata practices, thereby significantly lowering barriers for participating in the PCC, while fostering the development of the technical expertise needed to forge new paths for linked data adoption within the PCC as a whole. Working in communities of practice, participants have learned to create and describe linked data entities in ISNI, WorldCat Entities, and Wikidata. This panel brings together EMCO participants and organizers to explain why and how the EMCO program was created, explore its work and impact, and discuss what we have learned in our attempts during EMCO’s inaugural year to corral over 250 data enthusiasts into an organized program.
Metadata and Access Librarian, University of Pittsburgh
Hello! This will be my first conference and I'm extremely excited that I have the opportunity to attend. I'm interested in learning as much about Linked Data and BIBFRAME as possible in transitioning from MARC. Electronic resources are also another area of interest. And, I'm in the... Read More →
Metadata Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries
Kyla Jemison is a metadata librarian at the University of Toronto working with special formats. She is interested in music and audiovisual cataloguing, and how metadata affects discovery.
