Future of Bibliographic Systems: Designing a Roadmap to a new Bibli...

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Whither Bibliographic Data?
Designing a roadmap
to a new
bibliographic information ecosystem
Todd A. Carpenter, Executive ...

Our Dear Old Friend, MARC
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Our Dear Old Friend, MARC
(formatted for your viewing pleasure)

MARC Components
Encoding Structure
Z39.2
ISO 2709:2008 -- Format for information exchange
Format structure
Anglo-American ...

Photo: Minneapolis College
of Art and Design Library

Why is MARC so efficient? It had to be.
$2,642,412
per MBin 1965
Photo: Computer History Museum Data: Memory Prices (1957-...

How much computer technology pre-dates this?

Unfortunately, quite a bit...

Why?

We avoid improving infrastructure

Billions and billions of records
Photo: dfulmer

Photo:from I Love Libraries
MARC’s Massive installed base

If you were building a network today
would you string copper everywhere?

If you building a metadata ecosystem,
would you start here?
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“MARC Must Die!”
-Roy Tennant (2002)

Mmmmmm, Brains!

MARC is useful.
It is efficient.
It is our lingua franca.
There are many reasons to
retain it.
But wait.....

Movement toward linked data
datahub.io - 5107 data stores
id.loc.gov
British National Bibliography (BNB)
VIAF
OCLC WorldCa...

But is it sufficient?

Organizations will not move away from a legacy system
unless the new system:
a) Is demonstrably cheaper
b) Is demonstrably...

Can we say a new
metadata management system
based on linked data
will be/do one of those things?

It is in….
Adoption
(or rather, in its
absence)
The point at which most standards
fail is not prior to consensus

“You would be a fool to
design a system based
on an interchange
protocol.”
- Mark Bide, EDItEUR

Next generation library
systems are
already in production

Just a few...

How can we assure that we
are doing the right things?
For everyone?
That will save resources?
That will improve services?
...

NISO’s
Bibliographic
Roadmap Initiative
With gracious thanks to
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Initiative coordination
Gap identification
Economic analysis
Engage diverse players
Open process

Some issues:
Semantics
Interoperability
Economics
Rules
Provenance/Authority
Staffing/Training
Users

What have we done?
In-person meeting on April 15-16
in Baltimore
An unconference on bibliographic data exchange
45 in-pers...

What we are trying to avoid

The world
makes way for
the man who
knows where
he is going.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you don't know where
you're going, you might not
get there.”
-Yogi Berra

Thank you!
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director
tcarpenter@niso.org
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
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