[pd-discuss] Bibliographic Metadata Guide

Fri Aug 19 15:04:37 UTC 2011

I've gone ahead and added some brief notes, mentioning MADS, schema.org,
and MARC, and asking for a clarification of "auto-descriptive metadata".
Feel free to expand as needed.

Is it worth adding some discussion of standards or containers for this metadata?
While I suspect that you're not intending to focus on that, it does affect
the metadata choices in some cases.  (E.g., OAI-PMH mandates a Dublin Core
description of each object; Atom may also tend to favor certain kinds of
formats.)  Likewise, containers such as METS are one way of addressing the
problem of combining descriptive and non-descriptive metadata.

John

On 08/19/2011 10:35 AM, Primavera De Filippi wrote:
> Hi all !
> We are currently working on drafting a Bibliographic Metadata Guide to
> be distributed to anyone interested in storing bibliographic data into
> a structured format.
> We want to identify the various standards of metadata available for
> the description of bibliographic works (literary, artistic, musical,
> etc) and describe what are the pros and cons for each one.
> We also want to identify who are the key players in the field, as well
> as the standard they have decided to adopt and the underlying reasons
> for that choice.
> A preliminary draft is available here: http://okfnpad.org/metadata -
> Feel free to add anything that you consider relevant (and eventually
> fix some inaccuracies if necessary) !
> If anyone is interested in actively contributing to this guide, please
> contact me for details.
> Primavera
>
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