The 6th BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe Annual Meeting took place as a hybrid event from 20-21 September 2022. It was organized by the National Széchényi Library Budapest, Hungary. This forum brings together people working in the transition from MARC to Linked Data using the BIBFRAME model and related tools.
The presentations are online.
The conference organized by KBR (Royal Library of Belgium, which hosts the Belgian ISSN Centre) was held in Brussels and online on 13th and 14th September 2022. The networking project LOD-ISNI aims to strengthen the long-term cooperation with (inter)national partners, and to promote the use of Linked Open Data and international standards for disclosing and valorizing cultural heritage materials.
The programme was split into two sections with the first day of the conference focusing mainly on linked data, and the second day on international standards. The videos and presentations are online.
The International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) Review Group is seeking candidates to join its revision works aiming at aligning the ISBD to the IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM).
The terms of reference for this aligning revision are to:
Candidates will be selected and will work closely with the ISBD for Manifestation Task Force.
In the framework of the 3R project for DACH libraries, an important step will be taken at the end of this year, together with the planned ending of the project. The first version of the DACH indexing manual will be published. This will include almost all item descriptions for published resources. A first application profile for published resources has been created. A training concept for the new cataloguing manual has been developed. At the same time, this project was submitted to the international discussion within the RSC.
Ces dernières années, de nombreuses voix se sont élevées dans le réseau SUDOC pour défendre la qualité des données et du catalogue : notamment, les outils CheckSudoc, VerifSudoc et Kalidos ont été adoptés par les catalogueurs ; des groupes de travail spécifiques ont été mis en place dans certains établissements.
Avec QualiMarc, le réseau Sudoc se dote d’un outil supplémentaire pour atteindre cet objectif : que chacun, quel que soit son niveau de catalogage, puisse produire des données de qualité pour l’Enseignement Supérieur et la Recherche français, en étant guidé sans être surveillé et en apprenant de ses erreurs.
Organisée le mardi 24 mai 2022, la Journée d’étude « Les autorités étoilées » consacrée aux actions d’enrichissement pour la qualité des données d’autorité a remporté un franc succès avec 210 inscrits ayant participé aux échanges. Cette Journée d’étude en ligne visait plusieurs objectifs :
Les enregistrements des présentations sont en ligne et consultables sur le site de l’Abes.
Over the past few years, Jisc has been driving conversations about the need for a UK national strategy for persistent identifiers (PID), in response to Professor Adam Tickell’s 2018 advice to the UK government on open access to research. This has included commissioning a report from Josh Brown which recommended a national approach with five major components. Jisc subsequently worked with Josh and the MoreBrains Cooperative to take these recommendations forward. It’s now time to move ahead with the next stage of the UK national PID strategy.
The March 2022 release of RDA Toolkit was accompanied by an upgrade to the RDA Registry. This article describes the Registry upgrade in more detail. The RDA Registry is an interface to the RDA Vocabularies, including the RDA element sets and value vocabularies together with alignments and mappings to related bibliographic standards. The Registry provides free downloads of RDA Vocabularies data files in several different formats for use by developers. The Registry also offers open access to entity, element, and concept definitions and scope notes without the need for a subscription to RDA Toolkit.
See pp. 34-36 of IFLA Metadata Newsletter, vol. 8, n° 1, June 2022
Out of a series of posts reporting back from conversations on transitioning to the next generation of metadata in Spain, this one focuses on author identification in the trade book supply chain (A Spanish translation is available here). To kick off the session, Andrew MacEwan gave an update on the British Library’s collaboration with publishers in the UK to promote use of ISNI identifiers in the upstream supply chain. This triggered a fruitful discussion in which the participants of the round table agreed that author identity management is a crucial part of the metadata supply chain of trade books. The main take-away was a raised awareness of the role ISNI can play to eliminate duplication and automate the process.
The 2021 Update to the 2011 Consolidated Edition of the ISBD is the first release since the publication of the 2011 Consolidated Edition of the ISBD. It extends the coverage of ISBD to a larger array of resources, optimizes its ability for granular description, clarifies and develops some of the elements, and brings more organization and refinements into the description of some types of resources. Its development brings together the energies and expertise of senior members of the ISBD Review Group and external experts from specialized associations and learned societies. Mikael Wetterstöm, as Metadata expert at ISSN International Centre, participated in the Manifestation Task Force. Notably, the 2021 Update clarifies title changes for serials, multipart monographic and integrating resources, and changes in the edition statement.
You can download the official edition of the 2021 Update.
