Cataloging Futures

New metadata tool under development: Vocabulary Mapping Framework

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.

New report: Advancing the State of the Art in Distributed Digital Libraries

Even though I'm going on vacation for a few days, I'm going to try to read this report: Advancing the State of the Art in Distributed Digital Libraries: Accomplishments of and Lessons Learned from the Digital Library Federation Aquifer Metadata Working Group.

One of the author, Jenn Riley, provides more details at the Inquiring Librarian blog.

I'll be "off the grid" until next Monday on my excellent Canadian adventure! Back soon.

Training Program for Shareable Metadata

In my dogged search for metadata best practices, I just discovered this workshop: Metadata for You & Me: A Training Program for Shareable Metadata.

Metadata for You & Me workshops address the needs of library, museum and cultural heritage professionals in the creation, development and use of interoperable or shareable descriptive metadata. The content of workshops is based on the Best Practices for Shareable Metadata , an initiative of the Digital Library Federation and the National Science Digital Library, that provides guidance for creating metadata that can be easily understood, processed and used outside of its local environment.

Via Digitization Projects at UNLV Libraries