IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM) final document was revised after world-wide review, and it was endorsed by the IFLA Committee on Standards in August 2017. Moreover, Pat Riva’s paper presented at IFLA WLIC 2017 The IFLA Library Reference Model, a step toward the Semantic is available online.
The ISNI International Agency Ltd (ISNI-IA) announces changes to its infrastructure focused on providing open identifiers for organizations working in the field of scholarly communications. The ISNI Organizations Registry will enable organizations to change and correct their own records and allow the research community to identify author affiliations persistently and authoritatively, thereby supporting analysis of research output and impact.
OpenEdition Books is now using the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) author identification system.
This new functionality is part of High Integration of Research Monographs in the European Open Science Infrastructure (HIRMEOS), a European project that aims to enrich and enhance five European open access publication platforms in the human and social sciences.
In scholarly publishing, one of the ways to measure a return on investment is to assess circulation and usage statistics. COUNTER is an industry-wide standard made for counting the use of electronic resources. The second draft of Release 5 will be incorporating significant changes in response to the feedback received from both publishers and librarians through a survey.
Besides, a UKSG seminar was held on the same subject on 17 July 2017, and you may download the slides as well as these resources:
The Friendly Guide to Release 5 for Providers
E-book usage: counting the challenges and opportunities (Insights article)
Some publishers strive to improve their metadata with the goal of providing a better discovery experience. Mike Roberts describes Emerald Publishing’s extra step: publicizing its improved metadata using product-specific checklists and NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative (ODI).
In many disciplines, data are highly decentralized across thousands of online databases (repositories, registries, and knowledgebases). A group of US scholars outline 10 lessons they have learned about the identifier qualities and best practices that facilitate large-scale data integration. Specifically, they propose actions that identifier practitioners (database providers) should take in the design, provision and reuse of identifiers.
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.
