I took a quick look at this, since I've been thinking about both works
and discovery (separately) lately -- and, oddly, it doesn't say HOW
users will discover. It gives the data elements that should be indexed,
but it doesn't say what INDEXED means.

I would really like to see a thorough discussion of both of those
topics. Are we assuming left-anchored searching of headings? results in
some kind of order? keyword searching on headings, on entire records, on
?? Linking to WikiData? WHERE does the user do this discovery? On the
library web site, on Google, on Wikipedia?

Perhaps the gap here is what we mean by "discovery". This reads as
something like "required data elements for music cataloging", and what I
am aiming for is more like "how will users actually find things in our
future catalogs?" with use cases and scenarios. I would hope that it
would NOT start with "A user walks up to a catalog..." but more like
"User X is in the middle of composing a work of music, and wonders what
other works have used this progression..." (My knowledge of music is
limited - someone else can do better, I'm sure.)

kc

On 7/27/17 2:25 PM, Newcomer, Nara L. wrote:
> *****REMINDER: Comment deadline Monday, Aug. 7, 2017*****
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> *****Cross-posted. Apologies for duplication******
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> The Music Library Association's Music Discovery Requirements Update Task Force seeks comments on the Music Discovery Requirements Version 2 (2017) draft. The Music Discovery Requirements (MDR) "explore discovery needs specific to and especially important for music materials, particularly scores and recordings."
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> The draft MDR2 is posted at: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/?page=mdr
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> Please email your comments to task force chair Nara Newcomer [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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> The MDR2 draft is available as a pdf as well as a google doc to allow easier line-item commenting. If you leave your comments on the google doc while logged into a google account or you add your name to the comment, we will be able to follow up with you directly for any needed clarification, etc.
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> Comment deadline: August 7, 2017.
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> The first edition of the Music Discovery Requirements was released in May 2012 with the endorsement of the Music Library Association (MLA) Board of Directors and is available at: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/?page=mdr
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> The Music Discovery Requirements Update Task Force, formed at the request of MLA's Emerging Technologies and Services Committee (ETSC) and Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC) is charged to: Update the Music Discovery Requirements, with particular focus on: RDA updates; MARC updates; incorporating LCGFT and LCMPT, and updating appendices B & C (appendix A will be dropped.) Strongly consider creating an HTML version, and evaluate whether a pdf version needs to be retained. Set a mechanism in place for ongoing revisions to the MDR.
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> Music Discovery Requirements Update Task Force
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> Nara Newcomer, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Chair [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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> Anna Alfeld LoPrete, Indiana University
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> Rebecca Belford, Brown University
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> Christopher Holden, Library of Congress
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> Keith Knop, University of Georgia
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> Nancy Lorimer, Stanford University
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> Karen Peters, Bates College
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> Patricia Sasser, Furman University, webmaster
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