LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, and OCLC Research are launching a collaborative project. The organizations will examine the research information management (RIM) practices in three European national contexts—Finland, Germany and The Netherlands—with close attention to the adoption and integration of persistent identifiers (PIDs) and their role in supporting disambiguation and interoperability.
The Permanent UNIMARC Committee meets once a year, usually at the UNIMARC Strategic Programme venue, in Lisbon, Portugal. The report about the 2017 meeting is available online.
IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM) dated March 2017 is now available. This version has been reviewed after a world-wide review. It is awaiting endorsement by IFLA Professional Committee.
The Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) Recommended Practice aims to solve problems in the information supply chain by improving the exchange of metadata from content providers to knowledge bases. The KBART Standing Committee has been working to increase adoption of the recommended practice and add more content providers to its list of endorsers.
The content provider community is invited to participate in a survey regarding the use of KBART, ease of adoption, and opportunities for training and outreach. The survey will be available until June 15.
Stella Griffiths, Executive Director of the International ISBN Agency, looks at the reasons for the longevity of ISBN as it approaches 50 years. The article also outlines the work towards the revision of the ISBN Standard and the challenges that ISBN currently faces.
Since the initial launch of Handle.net, we have seen a proliferation of persistent identifiers (PID) addressing many use cases. Some PID systems have become established parts of the science information infrastructure. In other areas we see work in progress, and new use cases being proposed. This special collection of papers discusses the architecture of PID systems, their adoption and application, and new use cases.
The members of the ICEDIS Committee – EDItEUR’s special-interest group for serials standards – met on the final day of the UKSG Conference, on 12th April. ICEDIS is nearing 30, and this will be the opportunity to explore its continued relevance against a vastly changed subscriptions landscape, with business models, processes and stakeholder groups all very different from those in place in the late 80s. Another topic on the agenda: Getting the most out of ONIX-PC. Discussions will address how to encourage producers to create ONIX-PC files and how to add other downstream users of the information.
The latest revision of the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) 2016 has been announced by IFLA. This statement builds on the great cataloguing traditions of the world, as well as on the conceptual models in the IFLA Functional Requirements family. The aim of these principles is to help to increase the international sharing of bibliographic and authority data, and to guide cataloguing rule makers in their efforts. Translations into various languages are already in progress.
FRBRoo is an ontology or high-level conceptual model for bibliographic data. FRBRoo is the result of dialogue between the conceptual modelling communities of IFLA and the International Council of Museums (ICOM). FRBRoo version 2.4 was endorsed by the IFLA Professional Committee in December 2016.
The MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) convened two meetings at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta. Action was taken on 5 discussion papers and 7 proposals during the meetings. Read the proposals that were discussed and approved.
