Content tagged Metadata

The IFLA Metadata Newsletter is published jointly by the Bibliography Section, the Cataloguing Section and the Subject Analysis and Access Section. Issue vol. 7. no. 1, June 2021...

News - 1 July 2021

Tags: Bibliography, Metadata, Publications, Bibliography

The webinar materials page links to the slides from the lightning reports, the Q&A transcript, and to the full recording from the event held May 27, 2021. This is the first ...

News - 17 June 2021

Tags: Bibliography, Cataloguing, Classification and indexing, Conceptual models, Linked data, Metadata, Subject access, Subject analysis, Bibliography

  Description Sponsored by the IFLA Bibliography, Cataloguing, and Subject Analysis & Access Sections. Consists of seven Metadata lightning talks giving...

Publication - 19 May 2021

Tags: Bibliography, Cataloguing, Cataloguing, Classification and indexing, Conceptual models, Linked data, Metadata, Subject access, Subject analysis, Subject Analysis and Access, Bibliography, Webinars

The III International Bibliographic Congress will be held on April 27-30, 2021 For the first time, the Congress will be held online. Participation is free. The Congress is...

Event - 15 March 2021

Tags: Bibliography, Cataloguing, Conference, Metadata, Russian Federation

Join us online for a 90-minute webinar from the IFLA Bibliography, Cataloguing, and Subject Analysis and Access Sections. Join our New Horizons panel for a wide ranging...

Event - 5 March 2021

Tags: Bibliography, Cataloguing, Cataloguing, Classification and indexing, Conceptual models, Linked data, Metadata, Subject access, Subject analysis, Subject Analysis and Access, Webinar, Bibliography

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 resources, Best practices, Metadata, Audiovisual and Multimedia

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

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

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 resources, Children, Classification and indexing, Conferences, Digital resources, Electronic collections, Electronic document delivery, Electronic resources, Finland, Indexing, Information technology, Library collections, Metadata, Online public access catalogues, Resource discovery, Subject Analysis and Access

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)

*** 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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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