The BIBFRAME Update Forum in January 2024 highlighted the implementation of BIBFRAME by ExLibris and OCLC, and the Share Family linked data ecosystem, including Share-VDE. The presentation emphasized the importance of standard BIBFRAME for community interoperability and data curation. The Library of Congress is incorporating more scripts in bibliographic data regarding conversions from MARC to BIBFRAME and Scriptshifter, an automated tool developed by Library of Congress that can convert over 90 non-latin scripts into latin script following the LC/ALA guidelines. See this presentation: Scriptshifter: Enhancing Library Metadata and Discovery 

The BIBFRAME Update Forum held on 1 July 2024 was meant to discuss these changes.

Le traitement documentaire des ressources continues (collections et périodiques) en RDA-FR fait l’objet d’un chapitre qui rejoindra la rubrique des Instructions générales du site de publication du code. Il est soumis à enquête nationale auprès des professionnels de l’information. L’enquête est placée sous l’égide de l’Afnor, par la commission CN 46-9 Information et documentation – Identification et description,  pour publication officielle dans le code RDA-FR. Le chapitre G décline la mise en œuvre du modèle IFLA LRM selon le principe Œuvre-Expression-Manifestation ou WEM lock. Les commentaires sont attendus avant le 20 septembre 2024.

Texte soumis à enquête : chapitre G

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative aims to develop a system providing users with cloud computing services for open science practices.

When selecting an appropriate PID service, it is important to understand what your expectations are with respect to uniqueness, persistence and resolvability, and what methods and services are available to perform and control this selection process. These Guidelines are meant for helping PID Managers. This deliverable is opened until 31 August 2024 for the external community review as well as review in the ongoing FAIR-IMPACT support programme Creating EOSC compliant Persistent Identifier (PID) policies.

In March 2024, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) launched its latest Working Group, dedicated to establishing a strategy for the nationwide adoption of ISNI across the United States. The inaugural meeting on 27th March, attended by a number of industry leaders, set the stage for the Working Group’s activities. The Group will start by documenting successful ISNI workflow models from other countries, assessing their benefits and determining their applicability to the US market. Additionally, the Group will continue to represent US interests in the meetings of the ISNI Book Publishing Consultation Group.

In January, Martin Eve announced that Crossref had been experimenting with alternative file formats meant to make Crossref public data files easier to use by broader audiences. This year’s public data file is now available, featuring over 156 million metadata records deposited with Crossref through the end of April 2024 from over 19,000 members. A full breakdown of Crossref metadata statistics is available here. You can download all of these records in one go via Academic Torrents.

Cette journée professionnelle était organisée par le groupe Systèmes & Données de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) suite à la présentation en 2022 d’un jeu de données UNIMARC Entités / Relations conforme au modèle IFLA LRM. Ce jeu de données Entités /Relations implique notamment une réflexion sur les interfaces des applications de la BnF : Comment interroger ces données ? Comment les afficher ? Quels services leur associer ? Cette journée offre aussi un refrain sur l’actualité du programme, et une présentation du projet Noemi mené par la BnF, première réalisation d’envergure pour la mise en musique de la Transition bibliographique.

Retrouvez la retransmission vidéo sur la chaîne YouTube de la BnF ainsi que les présentations.

E-resources are frequently purchased as packages, but identifying them only by name creates ambiguity in the supply chain, affecting libraries, content providers, platforms, and users.

The NISO Unique Electronic Resource Package Identifiers Working Group will evaluate and create recommendations for a unique identifier to enable disambiguation between packages. This identifier will allow all stakeholders to streamline and simplify their processes, and to more easily track changes. It will also provide libraries with clear information about which titles a package contains, enabling them, for example, to manage claims when journals move between publishers.

NISO expects to convene the working group later this year.

ISNI’s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) is assessing 2023 accomplishments and outlining priorities for enhancing ISNI infrastructure in 2024. In 2023, work included extending the AtomPub API for managing duplicate records, enhancing transparency in handling life dates, and implementing policy updates on gender identity. Two major projects have finished development, undergoing rigorous user testing: a duplicate detection crawler for ongoing database monitoring and improvements in Hangul script submissions, benefiting Korean users and eventually others. These efforts aim to bolster ISNI’s efficiency and inclusivity.

The research project PID Network Germany has been actively involved for a year in establishing a network of existing and currently forming actors in science and culture, which covers the application, implementation, standardization and international connectivity of PID systems. The two-year workshop series started as part of the project. In this series, actors and stakeholders in the PID landscape are specifically addressed in order to identify needs and thus jointly develop recommendations for a national PID roadmap.