Content tagged Best Practices
Ordered by publication date from most to less recent.
(These results include any available translations of the original English documents.)
- IFLA CLM Principles for Library Associations and Libraries in Approaches to Rightholders during the COVID-19 Pandemic
IFLA’s Advisory Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters has developed a set of principles for use by library associations in discussions with rightholders at the national level...
Publication - 27 May 2020
Tags: Access to information, Copyright exceptions and limitations, COVID-19, Best Practices, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Best Practice for Establishing a Public Lending Right System that Supports Authors and Libraries and Enables Literacy and Learning (Annex to the 2016 IFLA Position on Public Lending Right)
IFLA’s existing statement on Public Lending Right (PLR), updated in 2016, sets out IFLA’s policy position on Public Lending Right. These best practices are without prejudice to the...
Publication - 29 April 2019
Tags: Advocacy, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Digital libraries, Digital resources, eBooks, eLending, eLending for Libraries, Best Practices, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Use case - Denmark
Comprehensive integration of the National Bibliography in library infrastructure The vast majority of the Danish National Bibliography is produced by the Danish Bibliographic Centre (DBC...
Page of a Book - 13 February 2015
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Use case - The United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom the British National Bibliography (BNB) is a view of data in the production database of the British Library's Integrated Library Management System. The records that form...
Page of a Book - 13 February 2015
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Subject classification schemes
IFLA recommends the adoption of subject classification schemes for arrangement of the national bibliography. Classification schemes may be directly related to the subject scheme used or...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- MACS
MACS (Multilingual Access to Subjects) is a collaborative project involving the British Library, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Swiss National Library...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- National and international initiatives
Subject indexing schemes express concepts in a way that is language-dependent. Multi-national initiatives to promote the interoperability of subject indexing across language barriers can involve...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Subject indexing schemes
Subject indexing schemes provide controlled access to the content of resources. Schemes define concepts and relationships between concepts to support user navigation. The Library of...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Subjects standards
IFLA recommends provision of subject access to national bibliographies. The IFLA Classification & Indexing Section has developed specific guidelines which have been made available in printed...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Authority control standards
Standards for authority files were often part of national cataloguing rules like AACR2 or RAK in the past. With the development of RDA as an internationally used cataloguing rule set, RDA...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Cooperative initiatives
Authority control is an expensive process. Various international initiatives exist with the objective of reducing the cost of authority control through co-operation. Such initiatives also...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Scope of Authority Control
The NBA is responsible for “establishing the authoritative form of name for its country’s authors, both personal and corporate, and authoritative lists of its country’s authors,...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Level of Authority Control
The scope of the national bibliography should be reflected in the scope of the authority file. Thus, NBAs that include journal articles in the national bibliography should include the authors and...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Authority control
Authority control (or access point control) refers to the normalisation of controlled access points (headings) and the provision of alternative and related access points. Authority control...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- International cataloguing rules
As a successor to the widely used AACR2, the new international code Resource Description & Access, RDA has been designed. Based on FRBR, RDA was developed to enable the description of any...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- National cataloguing rules
National cataloguing rules provide guidance on the selection and construction of access points and may cover other aspects of cataloguing, such as authority control, about which ISBD is silent...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Cataloguing rules
Whereas the ISBD is the standard that determines the data elements to be recorded, it is not an instruction manual itself. Most cataloguing rules that were developed by national bibliographic...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Comprehensive
Comprehensive level: Denotes assignment of extensive metadata for description and access Explicitly conforms to published content standards but there is no commitment to...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Enhanced
Enhanced level description: Indicates that the basic resource has been supplemented by assignment of some metadata May not explicitly indicate the content standards used...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Authoritative
Authoritative level description: Denotes the highest level of metadata assigned to a resource Offers the most flexible support for resource discovery Includes (...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Basic
Basic level description: Assumes no metadata have been assigned to the resource, either by the bibliographic agency or by the source Is likely to include web resources...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
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- Level of description detail
The NBA’s responsibility to create extensive records of its national imprint as recommended by the 1977 Paris conference and affirmed by the 1998 Copenhagen International Conference on...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Component description
An NBA may, in some cases, decide for the description of items such as journal articles, chapters and other parts of monographs, individual tracks on sound recordings, and other types of “...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Title description
Library metadata most commonly describes items – documents in any physical form, treated as an "entity”. The item forms the basis of the bibliographic description. If a national...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Collection-level description
Collection-level description (sometimes also: archival description) consists of metadata describing a collection as a whole, in contrast to item-level description (manifestation description in...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Granularity of description
A basic decision upon metadata requirements has to be made concerning the unit described. Does the metadata of a national bibliography pertain to a collection, to an item, or even to parts of...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Cataloguing rules compatibility
Compatibility of cataloguing rules is as essential as compatibility of formats. While formats govern the structure of metadata, cataloguing rules govern its content. Two events marked the...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
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- Bibliographic description
A primary function of the national bibliography is the accurate bibliographic description of the works it contains. Rules for the creation of bibliographic descriptions have evolved in...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
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- Bibliographic content standards
Adherence to content standards ensures consistency in the published bibliography. Content standards specify: Which information is to be recorded How it is to be...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD)
FRSAD is an addition to the FRBR family of conceptual models addressing subject authority data issues. It provides a framework for a commonly shared understanding of what the subject authority...
Page of a Book - 8 August 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
The FRBR conceptual model is intended to meet the end users’ needs. This data model proposes the creation of bibliographic concepts (“work”, “expression”, “...
Page of a Book - 8 August 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Functional Requirements: the FRBR Family of Models
The "FRBR family" of conceptual models consists of three entity-relationship models which are not cataloguing rules but rather conceptual models on how bibliographic data may be...
Page of a Book - 8 August 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- International cataloguing principles (ICP)
In 2009 the IFLA Cataloguing Section published Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) as an update of the Paris Principles adopted in 1961. The ICP aim to be applicable to online...
Page of a Book - 8 August 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Unicode / UTF-8
Unicode, developed by the ISO Working Group responsible for ISO/IEC 10646 (JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2) and the Unicode Consortium, is a universal standard for coding multilingual text. The ISO 10646...
Page of a Book - 8 August 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices
- Character encoding standards
In a globalized world, it is essential to encode characters in a manner that can be interpreted internationally and to encode and present information in the script required by the user. In such an...
Page of a Book - 8 August 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices
- New developments
Agencies responsible for maintenance of bibliographic models and standards have recognised that alignment with these developing standards is essential if bibliographic standards are to have any...
Page of a Book - 30 July 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Non-specialist file compression formats
While the long established Format for Information Exchange (ISO 2709) enables the efficient transmission of compressed MARC data, other non-MARC text based data formats (e.g. .CSV, XML etc.) lack...
Page of a Book - 22 July 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- ISO 2709
The "Format for Information Exchange (ISO 2709)" and its American counterpart, "Information Interchange Format" (ANSI Z39.2) have been used by NBAs for many years to...
Page of a Book - 22 July 2014
Tags: Best Practices
- Specialist bibliographic transmission standards
The libraries commonly use specialist formats for the distribution of MARC data based on the ISO 2709 standard that can be easily imported by library management systems.
Page of a Book - 22 July 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- ISWC
The ISWC (International Standard Musical Work Code) is a standard identifier (ISO 15707:2001) designed to uniquely and accurately identify musical works. It is a permanent identifier which...
Page of a Book - 21 July 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- ISNI
The ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) is a standard identifier (ISO 27729) for persons or corporate bodies and has obvious application in authority control, rights management and...
Page of a Book - 21 July 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- ISAN
The ISAN (International Standard Audiovisual Number) is an international standard (ISO:15706-1 & 15706-2) audiovisual work identifier. ISANs are unique, permanent reference numbers for...
Page of a Book - 21 July 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Record deriving
Record re-use includes the downloading or export of records (single or batches) into bibliographic databases, library management systems, or other applications (e.g. Heritage of the Printed Book...
Page of a Book - 1 November 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- New factors
Web publishing, new formats and media have changed the scope of the "national published output" by: Challenging our definition of published Lowering the...
Page of a Book - 31 October 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Persistant themes
The purpose of the national bibliography is to be an extensive record of the national published output. The national bibliography is typically an aggregation of bibliographic records...
Page of a Book - 31 October 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- S-Z
SACO - Subject Authority Cooperative Program. The Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO) was established to provide a means for libraries to submit subject headings and classification...
Page of a Book - 29 October 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- O-R
OAI - Open Archives Initiative OAI-PMH - Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting . A protocol specification that enhances the description of resources (digital but also...
Page of a Book - 29 October 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- L-N
LCC - Library of Congress Classification. Library of Congress Classification Outline - The list contains the letters and titles of the main classes of the Library of Congress...
Page of a Book - 29 October 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- I-K
IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ICNBS, see International Congress on National Bibliographies (ICNBS) Recommendations IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission...
Page of a Book - 29 October 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- A-H
AACR2 - Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition. AACR (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition) is a major international standard for the cataloguing of all types of materials...
Page of a Book - 29 October 2013
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- 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...
Page of a Book - 29 October 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Bibliography
Aguirre Bello, R. (2011). Electronic legal deposit at the National Library of Chile Anderson, D. (1974). Universal bibliographic control: A long term policy, a plan for action. Pullach/M...
Page of a Book - 29 July 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Resource description and standards
Adoption of internationally approved standards and principles is crucial for NBAs responsible for disseminating bibliographic records for national and international exchange. Such bibliographic...
Page of a Book - 29 July 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Examples
This section contains examples of how to integrate National Bibliographies into the library infrastructure. Denmark The United Kingdom
Page of a Book - 29 July 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Integration into a portfolio
National Bibliographic Agencies and the role of national libraries In many countries responsibility for creation of the national bibliography resides with the national library. However the...
Page of a Book - 29 July 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Definitions
What is a national bibliography? "A current national bibliography is a mirror that reflects the culture of a country. By looking at the current national bibliography one is able to...
Page of a Book - 5 July 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Purpose and value
The Mission of the National Bibliography Establishing the need for a national bibliography Increasingly, with new sources of information becoming available via the web, there is...
Page of a Book - 5 July 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Best Practice for National Bibliographic Agencies in a Digital Age
This web resource builds on the original printed ‘Guidelines for National Bibliographies in the Electronic Age (2009) created by the IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for National...
Page of a Book - 5 July 2013
Tags: Best Practices, Bibliography