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Carpenter - AAUP Conference - "Intro to Metadata"
The document discusses the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), which is an American trade association focused on developing and maintaining technical standards related to information and documentation in publishing. It highlights NISO's community composition, key standards managed such as DOI and ISBN, and various areas of work including open access metadata and identification. The importance of efficient metadata management and emerging topics like linked open data and digital preservation are also addressed.
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- 1. Standards: Who isdeveloping what, where, and why? Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO American Association of University Presses Conference New Orleans, LA • • • June 23, 2014
- 2. Image: DanTaylor Image:Joel Washing Standards are familiar, even if you don’t notice
- 3. A US-baed non-profitindustry trade association accredited by ANSI with 200+ members Mission of developing and maintaining technical standards related to information, documentation, discovery and distribution of published materials & media Volunteer driven organization: 400+ spread out across the world Represent US interests to ISO TC 46 & subcommittees Also serve as Secretariat for ISO TC46/SC9 - Identification & Description Responsible for standards like ISSN, DOI, Dublin Core metadata, DAISY digital talking books, OpenURL, MARC records format, and ISBN About
- 4. NISO’s Community 35 %Publishers/Publishing Organizations 32% Libraries/Library Organizations 36 LSA Members (non-voting) 33% Library Systems Suppliers, Publishing Vendors & Intermediaries ISO ANSI Other SDOs
- 6. Technical Committee (TC)46 Information & Documentation Subcommittees (SC): 4 – Systems Interoperability 8 – Performance Measurement 9 – Identification & Description 11 – Records Management NISO manages the Secretariat of ISO TC 46, SC 9
- 11. • IDEAlliance -Magazine industry, PRISM • Library of Congress - MARC, PREMIS, SRU/SRW • ALA - AACR2, RDA • IDPF - EPUB, E-books • ARMA-International - Records Management • OASIS - XML Standards • CrossRef - DOIs, FundRef, CrossMark • IMSGlobal - Learning Management Systems • Amazon - ASIN, KINDLE Still More Standards(ish) Organizations
- 12. • Image: Mark Bide (EDITEUR) 12
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- 15. One Ring toRule Them All?
- 16. Photo: Minneapolis College ofArt and Design Library June 20, 2014 16
- 17. Photo: OSU ThompsonLibrary Stacks” by Kristin Six June 20, 2014 17
- 18. 18 June 20, 2014 You can’t walk the stacks in a digital library
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- 21. Some NISO Workin these areas Open Discovery Initiative Knowledgebases & Related Tools Open Access Metadata and Indicators Some NISO work in these area
- 22. A Few KeyConcepts In identification & description (identifiers & metadata)
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- 26. Identifiers can bebut are not necessarily names (often better if they aren’t) IDs can be but need not be human-readable. They also may or may not be human understandable. Not every attribute need be described An ID & its metadata
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- 34. You identify anddescribe an item at the level at which it makes sense for your business needs to identify that item Functional Granularity
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- 36. Functional Requirements for BibliographicRecords (FRBR)
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- 38. How it fitstogether in a complex media ecosystem ISWC ISRCISTC ISBN ISSN CSI ISMN ISAN ISAN IPI IPI ISNI VIAF IPDA DOI DOI
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- 40. So are these things thesame or not? Revising the ISBN
- 41. Managing metadata well isexpensive
- 42. Managing metadata poorly is moreexpensive (often in ways you can’t measure)
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- 50. Thank you! Todd Carpenter,Executive Director [email protected] National Information Standards Organization (NISO) 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302 Baltimore, MD 21211 USA +1 (301) 654-2512 www.niso.org