International recommendations – 2012
The 2012 Warsaw Conference
Contents
- Purpose and value
- Organisation
- Scoping and selection
- Resource, description and standards
- Service delivery
- Glossary/Useful links
- Bibliography
- Home
On August 9th 2012 the Standing Committee held a conference Bibliography in a Digital Age at the National Library of Poland in Warsaw. The event was a Satellite Meeting to the main IFLA 2012 Congress. The purpose of the event was to share: experiences , techniques and challenges in order to identify developing themes & best practice.
Emerging Themes
- A need for pragmatic selection policies
- Open services to wider user groups
- Acquisition & application of new skills
- Linking & use of persistent identifiers
- Definition of ‘published’ digital material
- Targeted metadata transformation & crosswalks
- Requirement for multiple forms of metadata
National Bibliographic Agencies:
- Operate in a global market
- Create & supply metadata for a wider range of resources than ever before
Pragmatism & Selection
No universal solution exists & national variation exists between:
- Coverage of print, digital and multimedia
- Breadth & depth of descriptions applied
- Definition & treatment of materials
But agreement that:
- We can’t be exhaustive but we can be representative
- Should balance effort in creation of quality description & access points
- ‘Minimal’ must still be accurate
- Must be selective in harvesting & enhancement techniques
- Advance (e.g. CIP) data is still valued
Users
New user types require greater flexibility in:
- Support skills (e.g. IT, legal, library)
- Access options including connection to content
- Output formats & standards
- Personalisation of data and services
But all value consistency, authority & persistence of services offered…
Open
‘Open’ is becoming the norm via:
- Open licensing models
- Open access routes
- Open standards
Charging is a ‘MARC’ or ‘premium service’ issue
Increasing data re-use requires proactive licensing
Growth Areas
- Automated data creation – and enhancement
- Web harvesting – selection/domain/event
- Large scale processing of e-publications – via new workflows
- Growth in the use of ontologies and controlled vocabularies
- Semantic approaches – from ‘tags to triples’
- Development and maintenance of persistent links & IDs
- Linking – to and from resources