Metadata, identifiers and linking together content
Todd CarpenterExecutive Director, NISOAAP - PSP Annual Meeting
Washington, DC • • • February 4, 2016
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Washington, DC • • • February 4, 2016
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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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And for most books, this is the best we can give you?
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Contentformmetadata
Metadataelementsembeddedinthecontentfile
SuchasPDF,JATS,Docbook,TEIEPUB
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Businessexchangemetadata
ONIXv2.1andv3.0arenotcompletelydifferent
Upgradeifyouhaven’t!
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Taxonomies/SubjectHeadings
LCSH,BISAC/BIC,ThemaDomainspecifictaxonomies
Shouldyoubemappingtaxonomiestoyourbooks,titles,chapters,withintext?
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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