Metadata, identifiers and linking together content - Todd Carpenter
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Todd Carpenter's presentation at the Council of Science Editors annual conference in Philadelphia, PA on May 18, 2015.
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Metadata, identifiers and linking together content - Todd Carpenter
- 1. Metadata, identifiers and linking together content Todd Carpenter Executive Director, NISO Council of Science Editors Annual Meeting 2015 Philadelphia, PA • • • May 18, 2015
- 2. Photo: Minneapolis College of Art and Design Library 2
- 3. Photo: OSU Thompson Library Stacks” by Kristin Six 3
- 4. You can’t walk the stacks in a digital library or browse an online bookstore 4
- 5. • Image: Mark Bide (EDITEUR) 5
- 6. • Image: Mark Bide (EDITEUR) 6
- 7. • Image: Mark Bide (EDITEUR) 7
- 9. May 18, 2015 9
- 14. We all want our own
- 15. Who is responsible for all this complexity? 15
- 17. A US-baed non-profit industry trade association accredited by ANSI with 200+ members Mission of developing and maintaining technical standards related to information, documentation, discovery and distribution of published materials media Volunteer driven organization: 500+ spread out across the world Represent US interests to ISO TC 46 subcommittees Also serve as Secretariat for ISO TC46/SC9 - Identification Description Responsible for standards like ISSN, DOI, Dublin Core metadata, DAISY digital talking books, OpenURL, MARC records format, and ISBN About
- 24. S=ll More Standards(ish) Organiza=ons • IDEAlliance -‐ Magazine industry, PRISM • Library of Congress -‐ MARC, PREMIS, SRU/SRW • ALA -‐ AACR2, RDA • IDPF -‐ EPUB, E-‐books • ARMA-‐InternaNonal -‐ Records Management • OASIS -‐ XML Standards • CrossRef -‐ DOIs, FundRef, CrossMark • IMSGlobal -‐ Learning Management Systems • Amazon -‐ ASIN, KINDLE 24
- 25. A Few Key Concepts In identification description (identifiers metadata)
- 27. The string identifying the referent The Identifier
- 28. The data that describes the referent The Metadata
- 29. Identifiers can be but are not necessarily names (often better if they aren’t) IDs can be but need not be human-readable. They also may or may not be human understandable. Not every attribute need be described An ID its metadata
- 31. You identify and describe an item at the level at which it makes sense for your business needs to identify that item Functional Granularity
- 32. A lesson in functional granularity
- 33. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
- 35. ISWC ISRCISTC ISBN ISSN CSI ISMN ISAN ISAN IPI IPI ISNI VIAF IPDA DOI DOI Stitching Together a Complex Ecosystem 35
- 36. May 18, 2015 ISWC ISRCISTC ISBN ISSN CSI ISMN ISAN ISAN IPI IPI ISNI VIAF IPDA DOI DOI Stitching Together a Complex Ecosystem 36
- 37. May 18, 2015 37
- 38. May 18, 2015 Managing identifiers and metadata well is difficult and expensive 38
- 39. May 18, 2015 Managing identifiers and metadata poorly can be more expensive and probably in ways you can’t track. 39
- 40. Thank you! Todd Carpenter, Executive Director tcarpenter@niso.org National Information Standards Organization (NISO) 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302 Baltimore, MD 21211 USA +1 (301) 654-2512 www.niso.org