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Metadata, identifiers and linking together content - Todd Carpenter
The document presents insights from Todd Carpenter, Executive Director of NISO, on the complexities of managing metadata and identifiers within the information and publishing industries. It highlights the need for technical standards, the roles of various organizations, and the challenges associated with identifying and describing content accurately. The emphasis is on the importance of functional granularity and the operational costs related to metadata management.
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Metadata, identifiers and linking together content - Todd Carpenter
- 1. Metadata, identifiers and linkingtogether content Todd Carpenter Executive Director, NISO Council of Science Editors Annual Meeting 2015 Philadelphia, PA • • • May 18, 2015
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- 3. Photo: OSU ThompsonLibrary Stacks” by Kristin Six 3
- 4. You can’t walk the stacks in a digital library or browse an online bookstore 4
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- 14. We all wantour own
- 15. Who is responsible for all this complexity? 15
- 17. A US-baed non-profitindustry 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 KeyConcepts In identification description (identifiers metadata)
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- 28. The data that describesthe referent The Metadata
- 29. Identifiers can bebut 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
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- 31. You identify anddescribe an item at the level at which it makes sense for your business needs to identify that item Functional Granularity
- 32. A lesson infunctional granularity
- 33. Functional Requirements for BibliographicRecords (FRBR)
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- 36. May 18, 2015 ISWC ISRCISTC ISBN ISSN CSI ISMN ISAN ISAN IPI IPI ISNI VIAFIPDA DOI DOI Stitching Together a Complex Ecosystem 36
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- 38. May 18, 2015 Managingidentifiers and metadata well is difficult and expensive 38
- 39. May 18, 2015 Managingidentifiers 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