[openbiblio-dev] Bibliographic Metadata Guide is now on Wiki !

Tue Nov 8 17:48:27 UTC 2011

Hi again,
just to let you know that the guide has now been renamed to the Open
Metadata Handbook, and is now available at the following address:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Open_Metadata_Handbook

I have cleaned up and re-organized the 3 sections, but in particular I have
started to a preliminary draft for the last section on Recommendations.
It would be really great if you could help me fill this section up with
your comments or suggestions.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Open_Metadata_Handbook/Recommendations

This is the most important section, since this iswhere we present our
conclusions / recommendations on what we consider to be the most
appropriate standard(s) for the purpose of open bibliography.After a lot of
discussion and debates, we decided that it would be best to convert this
last section into a decision-tree, where different data providers can
answer simple questions in order to find out what are best-practices for
them, in terms of exchange format and metadata format.
There currently are 3 main questions regarding (a) implementation costs,
(b) interroperability, and (c) data integration
We probably need more than that, and definitely need more detailled
sub-categories for each questions - in order to reach our conclusions in
the end.

Please don't hesitate to come up with suggestions or ideas concerning the
decision-tree that we should formulate, and, of course, feel free to
contribute directly to the guide by editing the wiki !

Thanks,
Primavera

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> Great start Primavera.
>
> Due to the breadth of this (not just books, but films, artworks, etc)
> - what about renaming this to the Open Metadata Handbook? I think this
> is what we originally discussed. What do you think?
>
> Also I'd ping Europeana Data Model (EDM) people as soon as possible,
> if you haven't done so already. They may have existing work or ideas
> that we might be able to build on, incorporate or at least allude to
> and bear in mind!
>
> The metadata standards section [1] is epic (and scary!). ;-)
>
> J.
>
> [1]
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Metadata_Guide/Metadata_Standards
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Primavera De Filippi
> <primavera.defilippi at okfn.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all
> > As you might already know, the Public Domain Working Group and the Open
> > Bibliographic Data Working Groupof the Open Knowledge Foundationare
> working
> > on the drafting of a Bibliographic Metadata Guide.
> > The goal is to produce something that can be hand in to various GLAM
> > institutions to help them setting up a proper metadata model for their
> > works.
> > We want to provide them a few simple steps that illustrates the best
> > practices (or second-best practices) in terms of bibliographic metadata
> for
> > each category of works.
> > The guide has now been turned into a Wikibook for easier editing, the
> > current draft is available here
> > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Metadata_Guide
> > We would like to involve the whole community in this project, so please
> feel
> > free to contribute it any way you like, and if you know someone that
> might
> > be interested in contributing to this guide, please don't hesitate to
> > forward the link to them.
> >
> > Main tasks which are still to be completed are:
> >
> > - review & add to the current minimum/complete list of core metadata
> > elements for literary work + provide a similar minimum/complete list of
> core
> > metadata elements for other kinds of works
> >
> > - review/edit the current description of metadata standards + eventually
> > provide some additional information concerning who uses what
> >
> > - for the last section, produce a decision-tree, where different data
> > providers can answer simple questions in order to find out what are
> > best-practices for them, in terms of exchange format and metadata format.
> >
> > Finally, we are trying to set up a small task-force of contributors who
> > would be assigned specific sections or tasks. If you are interested in
> > joining the task force, please don't hesitate to contact me.
> >
> > Thanks !
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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