E-resources are frequently purchased as packages, but identifying them only by name creates ambiguity in the supply chain, affecting libraries, content providers, platforms, and users.

The NISO Unique Electronic Resource Package Identifiers Working Group will evaluate and create recommendations for a unique identifier to enable disambiguation between packages. This identifier will allow all stakeholders to streamline and simplify their processes, and to more easily track changes. It will also provide libraries with clear information about which titles a package contains, enabling them, for example, to manage claims when journals move between publishers.

NISO expects to convene the working group later this year.

ISNI’s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) is assessing 2023 accomplishments and outlining priorities for enhancing ISNI infrastructure in 2024. In 2023, work included extending the AtomPub API for managing duplicate records, enhancing transparency in handling life dates, and implementing policy updates on gender identity. Two major projects have finished development, undergoing rigorous user testing: a duplicate detection crawler for ongoing database monitoring and improvements in Hangul script submissions, benefiting Korean users and eventually others. These efforts aim to bolster ISNI’s efficiency and inclusivity.

The research project PID Network Germany has been actively involved for a year in establishing a network of existing and currently forming actors in science and culture, which covers the application, implementation, standardization and international connectivity of PID systems. The two-year workshop series started as part of the project. In this series, actors and stakeholders in the PID landscape are specifically addressed in order to identify needs and thus jointly develop recommendations for a national PID roadmap.

Initiated by the Library of Congress, BIBFRAME provides a foundation for the future of bibliographic description, both on the web, and in the broader networked world that is grounded in Linked Data techniques. This Update Forum held on 22 January 2024 featured BIBFRAME activities of two institutions: ExLibris and OCLC. ExLibris described their plans for using BIBFRAME linked data as defined by the Library of Congress with their system, Alma. And OCLC followed with developments underway for supporting libraries that will be using BIBFRAME.

The video recording and the slides are online.

Dans le cadre du programme Transition bibliographique, l’objectif de l’ontologie RDA-FR est d’exprimer avec les technologies du web sémantique les entités, leurs attributs et leurs relations définies par le code de catalogage RDA-FR en conformité avec le modèle international IFLA LRM.

Les premiers éléments de l’ontologie RDA-FR concernant les ressources continues viennent d’être publiés en version bêta : voir https://rdafr.fr/release-notes.html#v0.3.0.
L’ontologie rend compte des attributs de l’Oeuvre de ressource continue, sous-classe de l’entité Oeuvre, ainsi que de toutes les relations entre une Oeuvre de ressource continue et une autre oeuvre (qui peut ou non être de ressource continue).

The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Task Group on Developing Guidelines for Using ISO 639-3 Language Codes for Library Cataloging was charged with developing a set of guidelines for how to use ISO 639-3 language codes in MARC records. These guidelines were approved by the PCC on November 22, 2022. Most of the test recommendations were carried over. The guidelines continue to recommend only using ISO 639-3 language codes in addition to MARC language codes in shared cataloging in order to support interoperability.

The ISBD Review Group and the ISBD for Manifestation Task Force held an online introductory meeting on 8 February 2024 with participants from other IFLA bodies, Resource Description and Access (RDA), MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) and ISSN International Centre, in order to facilitate the start of the expert review phase of the ISBD for Manifestation. This phase will be ending by mid-May 2024, and will be followed by an official worldwide review phase from mid-May to mid-July. A webinar for all interested colleagues before starting the review will be held at the end of April 2024.

Have a look at the ISBD for Manifestation website.

Un précédent dossier en 2017 donnait déjà à voir l’importance des identifiants, les usages d’IdRef hors de l’Abes, et la complémentarité homme/machine dans les tâches de liage des ressources documentaires à des notices d’autorité. En 2023, en dressant les 6 points forts de l’Abes, l’évaluation du Haut Conseil de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur (Hcéres) saluait « la qualité et la pertinence de l’offre de services, en particulier des référentiels, dont IdRef ».

The ISBD for Manifestation Task Force can now present a first draft of the ISBD for Manifestation (ISBDM) under the form of an online tool.

The ISBDM review phase 1 started already in November 2023 with an ISBD Review Group review. The review will now continue with phase 2, which is an “expert review” where experts from other IFLA bodies, RDA, MAC, and ISSN are invited. Phase 2 will start with an online introductory meeting on 8 February, at 3-5 PM (Paris time) to which 2-4 ISSN Review Group experts are invited.

Please find the ISBDM review phase plan: https://www.ifla.org/g/isbd-rg/isbd-for-manifestation-isbdm/.