The PCC Policy Committee has decided that the PCC will not implement the Official (new) RDA Toolkit before October 2022. The reason for the added delay is that the site migration of the RDA Toolkit, including original RDA, has impacted the expected update schedule. Once these updates have been made, PCC is planning on conducting a testing period, beginning sometime in March or April of 2022. More information on this test will be coming soon. In the meantime, the PCC will continue to catalog using the Original RDA Toolkit.

Responding to interest in the library community and beyond, ISNI-International Agency is now making available key ISNI metadata in several Linked Data formats. The metadata covers assigned ISNI identifiers themselves and a subset of the associated information describing each one in the ISNI database. You can find more detailed information.

The persistent identifier systems (Persistent Identifiers, PIDs) such as Handle, DOI, ORCID and ROR that are currently used frequently in scientific publishing, have fundamental problems with regard to data security, data protection and ensuring data integrity due to their centralization. A possible solution to this is the system of DIDs: a new form of globally unique identifiers that can be generated by each individual or organization and operated on any platform that is considered trustworthy. At the end of the paper, the author presents five previously worked out requirements in relation to a contemporary implementation of persistent identifiers.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced the publication of its Recommended Practice, NISO RP-38-2021, Content Platform Migrations, which provides guidance to improve processes and communication between all parties, with suggested steps involved before, during, and after the migration of content from one platform to another. This new Recommended Practice, developed by the librarians, publishers, and content platform providers on the Content Platform Migrations Working Group, intends to streamline the process and clarify the communications needed to ensure seamless transitions. The final version incorporates feedback received from the wider community during the public comment period earlier in 2021.

In this Forum held during the ALA Annual Virtual Meeting, the Library of Congress reported on its progress toward BIBFRAME 100. Stanford reported progress on the community level and provided exciting news about a BIBFRAME data pool – cooperatively created by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), OCLC and ShareVDE. The PCC is also starting to look at important aspects of data exchange in this new BIBFRAME environment. With several large implementations of BIBFRAME now having extensive experience, the BIBFRAME ontology is being adjusted based on this experience.

• Recording of the BIBFRAME June 28 presentation (63 minutes)

The presentations are accessible here.

Did you know that organizational ISNIs can now be deposited as part of DOI affiliation metadata? Ringgold provides ISNIs for all records in the Identify Database, the authoritative reference database curated by Ringgold that serves the scholarly, academic, and research fields. The Identify Database contains almost 600,000 organizations in all countries and sectors. Related organizations are linked together, such as universities and their departments, or corporate entities with subsidiary firms or divisions. Ringgold hierarchies are key to understanding complex relationships and the wider market.

The ISNI International Agency (ISNI-IA) announces it is formally reviewing the handling of gender identities associated with the ISO 27729 International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI). A small advisory group will review current ISNI policy and emerging best practice in gender identification to identify shortcomings. The group will involve representatives from key ISNI sectors (including libraries, the music industry, book publishing and rights organisations) and from affected groups. The recommendations will be offered to ISNI’s community for comment and the ISNI Board will make a final decision.

IFLA’s Key Initiative 2.3 outlines the integral role of  developing standards, guidelines and other documents that foster best professional practice. During the session of IFLA’s Committee on Standards, Vincent Boulet highlighted the role Standards play in dealing with user tasks (IFLA Library Reference Model – LRM). The strength of IFLA Standards lies in their continued visibility and adaptability. In order to ensure both, new opportunities to build bridges with other stakeholders must be taken.

These include “ensuring a new generation interoperability (cross-domain identifiers) and joining other networks. Joseph Hafner, Chair of LIDATEC, provided an update on the recently-launched Namespaces project, a powerful linking tool that brings all of IFLA’s technical standards together.

The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation has released its second national open science plan, which proposes specific actions around PIDs such as:

• Standardise the Software Heritage Identifier (SWHID), which will complement the DOIs for software.
• Encourage researchers to adopt ORCID iDs, and propose adding data from ORCID to the research information systems to limit duplication efforts.
• Participate in the governance of standards for metadata and persistent digital identifiers (Crossref, DataCite, ORCID, ROR) and in the governance of open science services (Directory of Open Access Journals, Directory of Open Access Books, OPERAS,…).

More info on https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/second-national-plan-for-open-science/ 8

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) publishes the latest update to the JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2021), Version 1.3.

JATS provides a common XML format in which publishers and archives can exchange journal content—both articles (text and graphics) and non-article material such as letters, editorials, and book and product reviews. The Tag Suite is the complete set of elements and attributes described in the standard. Along with these descriptions, the standard includes three implementations of the suite, called Tag Sets, which are intended to provide models for archiving, publishing, and authoring journal article content. Version 1.3 of the standard incorporates public comments made through October 2020.