metadata, identifiers and linking content
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Metadata, identifiers and linking together content
Todd CarpenterExecutive Director, NISOAAP - PSP Annual Meeting
Washington, DC • • • February 4, 2016
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<dc:author>Todd Carpenter</dc:author>Executive Director, NISOAAP - PSP Annual Meeting
Washington, DC • • • February 4, 2016
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OK,I’llstoptalkinginanglebrackets,Ipromise!
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“Whyshouldwecare,it’sonlymetadata?”
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“Whyshouldwecare,it’sonlymetadata?”
BecauseontheInternet,metadatacanbemoreimportant
thantheactualthingitdescribes.
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Photo: Minneapolis Collegeof Art and Design Library
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Photo: OSU Thompson Library Stacks” by Kristin Six
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Youcan’twalkthestacksinadigitallibrary
orbrowsetheshelvesinanonlinebookstore
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Does anyone know what this is?
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Digitally, all you can
browse or searchis metadata
Photo: Minneapolis Collegeof Art and Design Library
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And for most books, this is the best we can give you?
Metadata,metadataeverywhere
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Function
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Purpose
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Domain
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Community
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This landscape in full size
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We all want our own
Dowereallyneedallthiscomplexity?
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YES!
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Contentformmetadata
Metadataelementsembeddedinthecontentfile
SuchasPDF,JATS,Docbook,TEIEPUB
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Businessexchangemetadata
ONIXv2.1andv3.0arenotcompletelydifferent
Upgradeifyouhaven’t!
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Authoridentification
PLEASE,PLEASEADOPTORCID!
ThereisalsoISNIinothercontexts
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Taxonomies/SubjectHeadings
LCSH,BISAC/BIC,ThemaDomainspecifictaxonomies
Shouldyoubemappingtaxonomiestoyourbooks,titles,chapters,withintext?
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Managing identifiers and metadata well
is difficult and expensive
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Managing identifiers and metadata poorly
can be more expensive and probably in ways you
can’t track.
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Thank you!Todd Carpenter, Executive Director
[email protected] Information Standards Organization (NISO)
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302Baltimore, MD 21211 USA
+1 (301) 654-2512www.niso.org