Carpenter - AAUP Conference - "Intro to Metadata"

Standards: Who is developing

what, where, and why?

Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO American Association of University Presses Conference

New Orleans, LA • • • June 23, 2014

Image: DanTaylor Image: Joel Washing

Standards are familiar, even if you don’t notice

A US-baed non-profit industry trade association accredited by ANSI with 200+ members

Mission of developing and maintaining technical standards related to information, documentation, discovery and distribution of published materials & media

Volunteer driven organization: 400+ spread out across the world

Represent US interests to ISO TC 46 & subcommitteesAlso serve as Secretariat for ISO TC46/SC9 - Identification & Description

Responsible for standards like ISSN, DOI, Dublin Core metadata, DAISY digital talking books, OpenURL, MARC records format, and ISBN

About

NISO’s Community

35 % Publishers/Publishing Organizations �

32% Libraries/Library Organizations �

36 LSA Members �(non-voting) �

33% Library Systems Suppliers, Publishing Vendors & Intermediaries �

ISO �

ANSI �

Other SDOs �

Technical Committee (TC) 46 Information & Documentation

Subcommittees (SC): 4 – Systems Interoperability

8 – Performance Measurement 9 – Identification & Description

11 – Records Management

NISO manages the Secretariat of ISO TC 46, SC 9

• IDEAlliance - Magazine industry, PRISM

• Library of Congress - MARC, PREMIS, SRU/SRW

• ALA - AACR2, RDA

• IDPF - EPUB, E-books

• ARMA-International - Records Management

• OASIS - XML Standards

• CrossRef - DOIs, FundRef, CrossMark

• IMSGlobal - Learning Management Systems

• Amazon - ASIN, KINDLE

Still More Standards(ish) Organizations

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One Ring to Rule Them All?

Photo: Minneapolis College of Art and Design Library

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Photo: OSU Thompson Library Stacks” by Kristin Six

June 20, 201417

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You  can’t  walk  the  stacks    in  a  digital  library

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Some NISO Work in these areas

Open  Discovery  Initiative

Knowledgebases  &   Related  Tools

Open  Access  Metadata  and  Indicators

Some NISO work in these area

A Few Key Concepts In identification & description

(identifiers & metadata)

The thing being identified

The Referent

The string identifying the referent

The Identifier

The data that describes the referent

The Metadata

Identifiers can be but are not necessarily names (often better if they aren’t)

IDs can be but need not be human-readable. They also may or may not be human understandable.

Not every attribute need be described

An ID & its metadata

Functional Granularity

Functional Granularity

Functional Granularity

Functional Granularity

Functional Granularity

Functional Granularity

Functional Granularity

You identify and describe an item at the level

at which it makes sense for your business needs

to identify that item

Functional Granularity

A lesson in functional granularity

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)

<indecs> description model

How it fits together in a complex media ecosystem

ISWC

ISRC ISTC

ISBN

ISSN

CSI ISMN

ISAN

ISAN

IPI

IPI

ISNI

VIAF IPDA

DOI �

DOI

Making the Theoretical Practical

So are these things the same or not?

Revising the ISBN

Managing metadata well is expensive

Managing metadata poorly

is more expensive (often in ways you can’t measure)

On the horizon

Non-­‐Textual  Content

Linked  Open  Data

Scientific Data

Digital Preservation

Altmetrics

We all want our own

Thank you! Todd Carpenter, Executive Director

tcarpenter@niso.org National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302 Baltimore, MD 21211 USA

+1 (301) 654-2512 www.niso.org