The document outlines two initiatives from the Library of Congress: the Cataloging in Publication (CIP) for e-books, which expands traditional CIP processes to encompass electronic formats, and the Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BFI), aimed at modernizing cataloging practices with linked data and semantic web standards. The CIP initiative includes a pilot program for different publishers and outlines the creation and modification of MARC records for e-books. The BFI focuses on adapting library cataloging rules and data structuring to improve accessibility and flexibility in metadata handling for diverse library needs.

1. Making and Moving Metadata:
Two Library of Congress Initiatives
Sally McCallum
NDMSO, Library of Congress
smcc@loc.gov
NISO/BISG Forum - June 22, 2012

2. Contents
 Cataloging in Publication (CIP)
 CIP data for E-books
 Pilot project
 MARC records for E-books
 Next steps
 Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BFI)
 Genesis
 Goals
 Approach

3. Cataloging in Publication (CIP)
 Metadata for printing in books and for
electronic distribution for 41 years
 Expansion to electronic books
 Initially, e-books that are also print books
 “Usual” CIP program requirements - plus

4. Cataloging in Publication (CIP)
CIP data for E-books pilot
 Pilot
 October 2011 – July 2012
 Different publisher types
 Wiley-Blackwell (Wiley and Jossey-Bass
imprints)
 University Press of Mississippi
 RAND Corporation
 World Bank

5. Cataloging in Publication (CIP)
Pilot project
 What publishers do:
 Get CIP for print book in usual way
 Apply for e-book CIP (brief electronic form)
 Place CIP data on copyright “page” of e-
book
 Submit copy of e-book to LC
 Following the Library’s best edition rules
 With no digital rights management restrictions

6. Cataloging in Publication (CIP)
Pilot project
 What LC does:
 Creates CIP and send data to publishers via
email
 Sends CIP MARC records to LC’s MARC
customers (e.g., OCLC and other networks)
 Adds e-book to LC collections
 Allows access to one reader at a time on
the LC campus

7. Cataloging in Publication (CIP)
MARC records for e-books
 Basis is the CIP record for the print book
 Differences:
 New LCCN
 Add e-book ISBNs if not in print book record
 LC classification reduced to classification part (050 $a only)
 Add [electronic resource] in title field (245 $h)
 Change field 300 to “1 online resource”
 Add e-book series, if applicable
 Add field 588 with CIP data source and review notes
 Add field 776 with print citation and LCCN/ISBN links to print
record
 Coded data: 008/23 = o (online); 007/00 = c (electronic
resource); 007/01 = r (remote)

8. Cataloging in Publication (CIP)
Next steps
 Just beginning transfer of e-book files to
LC
 Move from pilot to production – July 31
 Announce and solicit more publishers
 Continue refinement of data programs
and application forms

9. Cataloging in Publication (CIP)
Questions
 Questions?
 Project staff
 Program questions
 Karl Debus-Lopez (kdeb@loc.gov),
 Diane Barber (dbarber@loc.gov)
 Technical questions
 David Williamson (dawi@loc.gov)
 Camilla Williams (cewi@loc.gov)

10. Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BFI)
Genesis
 MARC 21’s age
 going on 50 which has pros and cons
 Pro: fully permeates the environment, globally
 Pro: adapted to multiple cataloging styles
 Con: accumulation of data elements
 Pro: adapted to XML environment
 Con: but still burdened by structural limitations
 Con: not easy to adapt to Linked Data conventions

11. Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BFI)
Genesis
 New library cataloging rules - RDA
 More identification and parsing of data
 More controlled vocabularies
 Use of terms over codes
 Goal of maximal linked data – using URIs
where possible
 Emphasis on relationships
 More flexibility with authoritative headings

12. Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BFI)
Goals
 Broad accommodation of content models
 New view of different types of metadata
 descriptive, authority, holdings, preservation, rights, technical, archival
 Reconsideration of the activity relationships
 exchange, internal storage, input techniques
 Accommodation of linking
 Traditional = textual, identifiers
 Semantic technology = URIs
 Accommodate needs for different types of libraries
 Large, small, research, public, specialized, …
 MARC 21 compatibility
 Maintenance of MARC 21 continued
 Enable reuse of data from MARC
 Provision of transformations to new models

13. Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BFI)
Approach
 Approach
 Orient to a Web and Linked Data exchange
environment
 Investigate use of semantic web standards
 RDF (Resource Description Framework) data model
 Various syntaxes: XML, JSON, N-triples, etc.
 Note taken of ONIX explorations
 Abstract data models for ONIX with semantic implications
 ONIX as RDF investigations

14. Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BFI)
Where we are
 Contracted with Zepheira in May 2012
 3 major tasks:
 Review and analysis of community initiatives on use of
semantic web techniques and modeling of interchange of
records in a Linked Data framework
 Development of prototype services and tools related to
modeling to enable community experimentation
 Following community review and discussion, roadmap for next
phase of work
 Follow the progress
 www.loc.gov/marc/transition
 Join the discussion
 bibframe@listserv.loc.gov

15. Thanks!