The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced publication of its newest standard, ANSI/NISO Z39.105-2023, Content Profile/Linked Document (CP/LD).

For most disciplines, the journal article remains the primary means of communicating the outputs of scholarly research. As a result, publishing workflows have been largely based on large XML document models. This standard is an application of HTML and JSON-LD to create semantic relationships between content and data elements in scholarly publishing to express self-describing, machine-actionable content for reuse and interchange of scholarly research information.

As the first standard STA community platform, the future relevant regulations for the German-speaking area were published on 1 August 2023:RDA DACH  (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). This is an adaptation of the international standard  Resource Description & Access (RDA) for the German-speaking area. These regulations will be gradually developed by experts from a wide range of disciplines and supplemented in the coming months. Training for newcomers will follow at a later date.

Take a look at the first applications of the STA platform.

Als erster Standard der STA-Plattform wurde am 1. August das künftig maßgebliche Erschließungsregelwerk für den deutschsprachigen Raum veröffentlicht: RDA DACH. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine Adaption des internationalen Standards Resource Description & Access (RDA) für den DACH-Raum. Diese Regelungen werden sukzessive durch Expert innen aus unterschiedlichsten Sparten erarbeitet und in den kommenden Wochen und Monaten ergänzt.

Werfen Sie einen Blick auf die ersten Anwendungen der STA-Plattform.

Le Comité stratégique des Bibliothèques (CSB) a publié un communiqué  réaffirmant la trajectoire d’ouverture des données bibliographiques françaises et l’intérêt des modèles entités-relations comme IFLA LRM. Le communiqué intègre des éléments de calendrier précis, sur lesquels les agences bibliographiques s’engagent.

Initié en 2015, le projet de transposer le code RDA aux pratiques et besoins des bibliothèques françaises, a produit à ce jour près de 1200 pages de documentation (définitions, règles , exemples, référentiels, etc.).

Ce nouvel outil se substitue en partie au contenu de la rubrique Code RDA-FR sur le site du programme national Transition bibliographique. Parmi les grandes améliorations, notons en particulier : le moteur de recherche, la citabilité des parties et sous-parties à travers leur numérotation cliquable, les référentiels téléchargeables.

Pour en savoir plus, reportez-vous à l’actualité 5 questions sur le site RDA-FR.

In June 2023, ISNI-IA provided a poster presentation at the Society of Scholarly Publishers (SSP) 45th Annual Meeting, with onsite support from Claire Holloway, Manager of Publishing Relations at OCLC.

• PIDs are now integrated into the majority of scholarly publishing workflows;
• PID exchange and wider interoperability are increasingly desirable features to support the widest possible dissemination of content.

The ISNI poster, alongside a number of other posters from this year’s event, are available on ScienceOpen.com.

As use cases build in the global research ecosystem around persistent identifiers (PIDs) for research organizations, ORCID has recently increased its financial commitment to the first and only openly available organization identifier—Research Organization Registry (ROR). Instead of disambiguating people as ORCID does, ROR disambiguates institution names, captures affiliations, links affiliation metadata to research outputs, and exchanges affiliation information across scholarly systems, making it an indispensable component of a research ecosystem that connects researchers with their research.

The RDA Board plans to begin a countdown clock in May 2026 (specific date still to be determined), with the removal of the original Toolkit taking place a year later—May 2027. This plan was presented to the RDA Steering Committee in May 2023, and the RSC fully supported this decision.

Cluster ISSN is a new concept defined in ISO 3297:2020. Cluster ISSNs are identifiers that allow an ISSN designated by a specific prefix, e.g., ISSN-L 0302-9743, to identify a group of related continuing resources.

This proposal is to define a new repeatable field (023), to provide a field that is distinct from the ISSN field (022) for this separate data element. Another goal is to allow the URIs associated with each Cluster ISSN to be linked unambiguously with their corresponding Cluster ISSN. Anticipation of future Cluster ISSNs with their associated URIs necessitates a new repeatable field to provide a separate field for each Cluster ISSN and its associated URIs. The result is a unique ISSN (ISSN-H) that will group the successive titles held by a publication over time.

In May 2023, the proposal was made available to the MARC community for discussion whose result will be known on 28 June 2023.

The Oceania region RDA Committee (ORDAC) presented a series of three webinars exploring concepts from the Official RDA Guidance chapters, presented by ORDAC member and Oceania RSC representative Charlotte Christensen from the National Library of New Zealand.
These sessions provide the step before beginning to describe a resource, exploring terminology and structure that will be key to following more community-focused sessions in the future. The recordings are available:

Watch the Session 1 recording

Watch the Session 2 recording