2012
The 2012 Warsaw Conference
On August 9th 2012 the Standing Committee together with the IFLA Cataloguing Section 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 cannot 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 concerning professional and/or commercial usage
Being able to accomodate 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
Last update: 5 December 2017