The College of Computing and Informatics of Drexel University announced three free open online learning series on metadata and linked data for the library and cultural heritage community. One of the webinars is called Linked Data for Librarians by Seth van Hooland and Ruben Verborgh. It provides an introduction to implementing Linked Data in library settings and then explores more advanced aspects of Linked Data applications, projects, and skills.
On 8 May 2018, ISNI held a briefing and outreach webinar entitled Optimising ISNI for the Identification of Organizations. The well-attended virtual meeting explored aspects of ISNI’s ongoing work to establish an Organizations Registry alongside its repository of person-related information in the global ISNI database. ISNI’s involvement in this area is not new, and to date over 700,000 ISNI identifiers have been assigned to organizational entities (out of a total of more than 10 million ISNIs assigned to date).
The webinar focused on two areas – establishing and verifying the need for a dedicated registry, and taking concrete steps to maximize the usefulness of the resource, initially for the scholarly and related communities. A copy of the webinar presentation is available from ISNI Executive Director, Tim Devenport.
IFLA’s conceptual models for bibliographic information are maintained in two forms, entity-relationship modelling and object-oriented modelling. As the models have developed in phases, the insights gained in one round of development have regularly informed and influenced the next development. Pat Riva, Associate University Librarian, Collection Services at Concordia University Library, Montreal (Canada) and Maja Žumer, Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), will present a paper illustrating the influences and adaptation of ideas using examples from the most recently approved models: FRBRoo version 2.4 (2016) and IFLA LRM (2017), continuing to current work to create LRMoo. This paper will be presented during the IFLA session 074 Impact of recently approved IFLA standards – Committee on Standards (SI).
Authors have an increasing range of measurable guidelines and assessment targets laid upon from different sources: journals, institutions, and ethics committees. Authors know certain methodological procedures performed by ethics boards and the types of journals they should appear in. Yet, for journal editors and reviewers, there are no globally recognized structures or measures of expectations or performance. This paper discusses the work of some groups and organisations which are making progress towards establishing competency frameworks and skills training.
A document describing the Outcomes of the RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign Project by RSC Chair Gordon Dunsire has been posted on the RSC website as RSC/Chair/19. An announcement titled What to Expect from the RDA Toolkit beta site has also been posted on the RDA Toolkit blog.
Together, this information paves the way for the release of the beta version of the redesigned RDA Toolkit, which happened on 13 June 2018.
The PIE-J Recommended Practice has been developed by NISO to provide guidance on the presentation of e-journals to publishers and platform providers and to solve some long-standing concerns of serials, collections, and electronic resources librarians. The latest progress was discussed on 11 June 2018, during a NISO open teleconference, whose recording is now available.
EuropeanaTech Insight is a multimedia publication about R&D developments by the EuropeanaTech Community. This special issue is dedicated to the SWIB Conference and features articles from Fedora, Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Finnish National Library and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). It’s becoming clearer that LOD is not just being seen as an information specialists tool for experimentation; its true value is being derived from this work enriching user experiences and collection contextualization.
The first meetings for the Metadata 2020 projects have now taken place. They focused on the breadth and scope of each project, discussing the crossovers with other projects, the potential overlaps and need for synchronization with other metadata-related initiatives in scholarly communications. The projects are described here.
Written by Tasha Mellins-Cohen, this guide will help librarians prepare for Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice. This publication provides a wealth of information about the new Metrics, Master Reports and Standard Views. It also provides a helpful section which maps the key Release 4 reports to their Release 5 counterparts. You will also find several user scenarios, that come together in a set of COUNTER Release 5 reports.
You can download the guide here in PDF format.
David Shotton describes the Open Citation Identifier scheme, created and operated by OpenCitations, which supports the assignment of Open Citation Identifiers not only to the citations present in the OpenCitations Corpus (OCC) but also to open citations present in other bibliographic databases.
