metadata – Access

NISO publishes recommended practice for the communication of retractions, removals, and expressions of concern

Information literacy, Research Stories, Research SupportJuly 11, 2024

(11 July 2024) The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) published the CREC Recommended Practice (NISO RP-45-2024) to improve the communication of retractions. Funded by the Sloan Foundation, this practice aims to ensure accurate metadata for retracted research. It enhances transparency and helps limit the spread of flawed or invalid science, boosting trust in academic research.…

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Revised version of Competencies for Cataloging & Metadata Professional Librarians released by ALA

LibrariesJanuary 12, 2024

(11 Jan 2024) In early 2023, the Core Metadata & Collections Leadership Team asked former member of the Cataloging Competencies Task Force, Dr. Karen Snow, to lead an effort to revise the “Core Competencies for Cataloging and Metadata Professional Librarians.” The revision team worked during 2023 to update the 2017 document. Their effort was informed by 2022 survey research data…

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NISO publishes e-book metadata recommended practice

eBooks, MetadataFebruary 23, 2022

(10 Feb 2022) Today sees the publication of the NISO Recommended Practice, E-Book Bibliographic Metadata Requirements in the Sale, Publication, Discovery, Delivery, and Preservation Supply Chain (NISO RP-29-2022). This document, prepared by the E-Book Metadata Working Group and approved by the NISO Information Creation & Curation Topic Committee, incorporates feedback received from publishers, retailers, libraries, service providers, preservation agencies, and…

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Webinar recording—SHARE-ing Omeka in the Web of Digital Scholarship

MetadataOctober 26, 2018

(24 October 2018) SHARE offered a webinar on October 4, 2018, describing practical workflows for scraping Omeka sites in order to curate metadata for discoverability. The presenters were Michael Roth, Project Intern; Heather Froehlich, Literary Informatics Librarian; and Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Head of Digital Scholarship and Data Services, Pennsylvania State University Libraries This one-hour webinar…

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Announcing the winners of the first ORCID consortia awards

Asia Pacific, Metadata, PublishersFebruary 1, 2018

(31 January 2018) ORCID has announced the five consortia who have gone above and beyond in their support for ORCID. The awardees come from the UK, Italy, Australia, New Zealand and Germany, Names and full details are here.

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The IFLA Metadata Newsletter December 2017 issue is now available

MetadataJanuary 4, 2018

(2 January 2018) The IFLA Metadata Newsletter December 2017 issue contains information from all over the world. 2017 was an election year and you will also find information about new members to the Biblography, the Cataloguing and the Subject Analysis and Access Sections. More here.

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One billion metadata facts now on Springer Nature SciGraph

Metadata, Open Access, PublishersDecember 22, 2017

(18 December 2017) SciGraph, the Linked Open Data (LOD) platform launched by Springer Nature in March 2017, now holds over one billion metadata statements about content published by Springer Nature and links to established external datasets. The LOD platform aggregates data sources from content published across Springer Nature covering an array of subjects and scientific…

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New IFLA Standard: IFLA Library Reference Model: A Conceptual Model for Bibliographic Information

Libraries, MetadataOctober 4, 2017

(3 October 2017) The Committee on Standards is pleased to announce the publication of the IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM): A Conceptual Model for Bibliographic Information, which was endorsed by the IFLA Professional Committee in August 2017. IFLA LRM is a high-level conceptual reference model developed within an entity-relationship modelling framework. It is the consolidation of…

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Have parts of DOAJ metadata in your catalogue/discovery service/A-Z List changed, are out-of-date or are missing completely?

eJournals, MetadataSeptember 26, 2017

(25 September 2017) DOAJ has received several messages from library catalogue administrators, their readers, and researchers asking why all of a sudden so many of the articles indexed from DOAJ are now missing? Within library catalogues, users are perhaps seeing a 404 message. On DOAJ itself, users are noticing that the article content included in…

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Library offers largest release of digital catalog records in history

MetadataJuly 23, 2017

25 million free records of bibliographic metadata (16 May 2017) The Library of Congress announced today that it is making 25 million records in its online catalog available for free bulk download at loc.gov/cds/products/marcDist.php. This is the largest release of digital records in the Library’s history. The records also will be easily accessible at data.gov,…

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