ISNI-IA has set up two ‘consultation groups’ open to interested stakeholders in the recorded music and library sectors, and each group has established regular meetings to discuss how ISNI can best meet any sector-specific needs. The groups centre around the Registration agencies and Member organisations, but are open to others with particular interests.
In June 2020, ISNI introduced a largely rebuilt and redesigned website.
The site navigation and the way that much of ISNI’s reference material is presented were enhanced. Over the coming months more improvements are planned, such as facilitating the accessibility of the site to the visually impaired.
With 27 ISNI Registration Agencies and 26 ISNI Members at the time of writing, the usage and uptake of ISNI continues to increase, both in domains such as the library community where it has long been established and in other sectors such as the music industry and organizations active in rights management and collections.
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Editorial Policy Committee (EPC) is a ten-member international joint committee of OCLC and ALA. Six exhibits will be discussed at the Editorial Policy Committee online meeting 142B, taking place during July 2020. You can find the text of all six proposals to revise Dewey at oc.lc/deweyexhibits.
Despite the various lockdowns, work has been ongoing; virtual activities are planned throughout the year, notably virtual Standing Committee meetings will be organised during this summer. This issue notably reports about Dewey updates (p. 6), the new French National Library website (p. 10), the new Director General of the German National Library and various projects (p. 11), projects and developments on name authority control and identity management led by the Cooperative Committee for Chinese Name Authority (CCCNA) (p. 9). Advances on RDA are also reported p 29.
The MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) advises the MARC Steering Group concerning changes to the MARC 21 formats. The MAC Annual Meeting was held online from 30 June-2 July 2020. The recordings are now available. Three discussions are specifically related to continuing resources:
IFLA received a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation as part of the WikiCite project.
The objective of the WikiCite project is to improve citations in Wikimedia projects through the development of open bibliographic data on Wikidata. Wikidata itself is a multilingual, open source repository of structured data and is playing an increasingly large role in supporting Linked Open Data initiatives in libraries.
IFLA’s Committee on Standards and Linked Data Technical Subcommittee (LIDATEC) are pleased to announce the launch of IFLA Namespaces.
This website allows for linked data access to various IFLA Standards, including:
The next standard to be included will be the LRM (Library Reference Model).
DataCite announces the launch of the new persistent identifier (PID) services registry available at https://pidservices.org, a new service to find services built upon different PIDs from core technology providers and those who integrate from across a variety of disciplinary areas. This is a combined effort across multiple organizations as part of the EC-funded FREYA project grant with the aim of furthering discoverability of PIDs and the services that are built upon them.
The NISO Working Group on E-Book Bibliographic Metadata Requirements in the Sale, Publication, Discovery, Delivery, and Preservation Supply Chain invites comments on its proposed Recommended Practice. Everyone involved in producing and using e-book metadata — publishers, retailers, libraries, service providers, and preservation agencies — is encouraged to share their feedback by August 2nd, 2020. In this recommended practice, item 5.1.4 develops a recommendation for monographs in book series and the use of the ISSN.
The RDA Steering Committee (RSC) is pleased to announce that Damian Iseminger will succeed Gordon Dunsire as the Technical Team Liaison to the RSC and chair of the RSC’s Technical Working Group; his two-year term starts January 2021.
Damian Iseminger is currently a member of the Working Group and now takes on the additional role of Technical Team Liaison-Elect. At the beginning of 2021, Gordon Dunsire will step down as chair but will continue as a member of the Working Group.
