Content tagged Metadata
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- Satellite Meeting 2019: Metadata Specialists in the Machine Age
A joint satellite meeting organised by the Cataloguing Section joint with the Information Technology, Subject Analysis and Access and Bibliography Sections. IFLA’s Cataloguing...
Event - 28 June 2019
Tags: Automation, Bibliography, Cataloguing, Classification and indexing, Metadata, Satellite Meeting, subject access, subject analysis, Bibliography
- Complete revision of IFLA’s International Standard Bibliographic Description to start in 2018, and your chance to get involved!
The International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) is the only open and freely available bibliographic standard with the goal of ensuring access to information by making bibliographic...
News - 30 July 2018
Tags: Access to information, Cataloguing, ICP, ISBD, linked data, LRM, Metadata
- Survey on rare materials cataloguing with RDA
In the last years an increasing number of libraries are adopting RDA as a cataloguing standard. Still, what happens to their rare materials? Is RDA fit for the description of their rare...
News - 7 May 2018
Tags: Metadata, Rare books and manuscripts, Rare Books and Special Collections
- IFLA Palm-leaf Manuscript Preservation Workshop
IFLA hosted a two day workshop to discuss and scope the needs for metadata standards in palm leaf manuscript preservation. The workshop was held from 6-7 July 2017 at the...
News - 12 July 2017
Tags: Cultural heritage, Metadata, PAC Centre, Palmleaf preservation, Preservation, Sri Lanka, workshop
- Palm Leaf Manuscript workshop
IFLA is hosting a workshop to discuss and scope the needs for metadata standards in palm leaf manuscript preservation. The workshop will take place at the National Library Board of Sri Lanka and...
Event - 28 June 2017
Tags: Conservation, Metadata, Preservation, Sri Lanka, Workshop
- Slides from the SWSIG / LIDASIG open session now available
Our Special Interest Group once again held a successful open session in Columbus, with a full room of participants to the open discussion. As usual we started with an introduction (slides...
News - 5 September 2016
Tags: linked data, Metadata, Semantic Web
- Beyond Libraries: Subject Metadata in the Digital Environment and Semantic Web
This special issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly contains the proceedings of the Section's satellite meeting held in Tallinn, Estonia, in August 2012. In it, authors from...
Publication - 17 January 2014
Tags: Indexing, Metadata, Publications, Subject Analysis and Access
- Metadata
Form to capture the metadata of an av media - 2012 (Technische Informationsbibliothek) MODS - Metadata Object Description Schema (Library of Congress) NTM-Metadata-Schema for non-...
Informational Page - 5 September 2012
Tags: Audiovisual and multimedia, Best practice, Metadata, Audiovisual and Multimedia
- Deadline for early registration is Friday, June 1 for the IFLA Satellite Post-Conference: Beyond libraries
This is a reminder that the early registration (with a reduced rate) for the IFLA Satellite Post-Conference, Beyond libraries – Subject metadata in the Digital Environment and Semantic Web,...
News - 29 May 2012
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Cataloguing, Classification and indexing, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Estonia, IFLA Satellite meeting, Indexing, Metadata, Semantic Web, Subject Analysis and Access
- 2012 Classification and Indexing Section Satellite meeting
The conference will explore the role of different kinds of subject metadata in the digital environment and the semantic web, in libraries and beyond libraries. The digital environment creates...
Event - 10 February 2012
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Cataloguing, Classification and indexing, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Estonia, Indexing, Metadata, Satellite Meeting, Subject Analysis and Access
- Call for Papers—Subject Access now: Inspiring, surprising, empowering
For the Classification & Indexing Section Open Session we invite presentations showing new and innovative ways of providing subject access to users from all types of libraries –...
News - 10 January 2012
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Audiovisual and multimedia, Children, Classification and indexing, Collections, Conferences, Digital resources, Electronic collections, Electronic delivery, Electronic resources, Finland, Indexing, Information technology, Metadata, Public access catalogues, Resource discovery, Subject Analysis and Access
- Interoperability of ISBD within Linked Data Environment
Project goals and objectives The ISBD consolidated edition of 2011 has positioned this IFLA standard as a core standard for universal bibliographic control, while its representation in the...
Informational Page - 28 December 2011
Tags: Cataloguing, Metadata, ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description)
- Initial project of ISBD/XML Study Group
*** Superseded contents *** *** Go to ISBD Linked Data Study Group for updated information *** Goals and objectives IFLA Cataloguing Section's ISBD...
Informational Page - 27 December 2011
Tags: Cataloguing, Metadata, ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description)
- Classification and Indexing Section: June 2011 Newsletter published
The Section's June Newsletter includes reports from the IFLA Namespaces Task Group, a call for comments by the Working Group on Guidelines for Subject Access by National Bibliographic Agencies, a...
News - 18 June 2011
Tags: Classification and indexing, Indexing, International cooperation, Metadata, Resource discovery, Subject Analysis and Access
- Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) Final Report published
The Final Report, Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD), approved by the Standing Committee of the Classification and Indexing Section in June 2010, is now available. The...
News - 26 July 2010
Tags: Indexing, Metadata, subject analysis, subject authority records, subject indexing, Subject Analysis and Access
- Survey on metadata decisions for digital libraries
Metadata Decisions for Digital Libraries is a survey undertaken in 2007 by Marcia Zeng (Kent State University), Jaesun Lee (National Library of Korea), and Allene Hayes (Library of Congress) to...
News - 8 June 2010
Tags: Metadata, Cataloguing
- Classification and Indexing Section: December 2009 Newsletter available
The December 2009 issue of the Classification and Indexing Section newsletter is now available, featuring international news, Section actvities in Milan and elsewhere, and professional conference...
News - 13 January 2010
Tags: Access to knowledge, Classification and indexing, Communities of practice, Cooperation, Indexing, International cooperation, Metadata, Resource discovery, Subject Analysis and Access
- ISBD Linked Data Study Group
The ISBD consolidated edition (2011) is positioned as a core standard for universal bibliographic control. The representation of the ISBD in the W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF)...
Informational Page - 7 November 2009
Tags: Cataloguing, Metadata, ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description)
- Working Group on Metadata for Digital Objects
Digital publishing is rapidly spreading into different publishing domains, at present especially within the academic world and among government and municipal bodies. For libraries that have started...
Informational Page - 17 April 2009
Tags: Cataloguing, Digital resources, Metadata, Cataloguing