A couple of the other cataloging blogs posted this news over a week ago. But I also wanted to weigh in on the Vocabulary Mapping Framework [pdf].
Work is under way to create an extensive and authoritative mapping of vocabularies from major content metadata standards, creating a downloadable tool to support interoperability across communities.The work is an expansion of the existing RDA/ONIX Framework into a comprehensive vocabulary of resource relators and categories, which will be a superset of those used in major standards from the publisher/producer, education and bibliographic/heritage communities (CIDOC CRM; DCMI; DDEX; DOI; FRBR; MARC21; LOM; ONIX; RDA – see reference section below for details).The resulting tool will be known as the Vocabulary Mapping Framework (VMF).
This is the kind of tool that will be very helpful for metadata work, not just in the future, but right now.
For example, last year I mentioned that I'd been using XQuery to map Dublin Core elements to CrossRef XML Metadata Deposit Schema elements to create XML documents to submit to CrossRef, our DOI provider. I definitely could have used the VMF for that project.
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