By Linda Jerrewing Strömberg, National Library of Sweden In an ongoing move towards better utilisation of its linked data environment, the Swedish union catalogue Libris was in 2023 remodeled to enable cataloguing of stand-alone bibliographic BIBFRAME work entities. Click here to get the full article – IFLA Metadata Newsletter – Dec. 2023
Read moreThe IFLA Satellite Meeting on Universal Bibliographic Control at the crossroads: the challenges of unifying IFLA bibliographic standards took place in Brussels (KBR) on August 18 and 19, 2023. Universal Bibliographic Control is a fundamental principle for national libraries, formulated over 50 years ago by IFLA and UNESCO. IFLA’s last official document on the subject, […]
Read moreEuropean Retrospective Bibliographies at CERL Early in 2022, the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL – www.cerl.org) established a Working Group on Retrospective Bibliographies. The Working Group’s main focus was to identify electronic resources with bibliographical descriptions for national, regional, format-specific (i.e. incunabula, newspapers) or language-specific print cultures (up to 1830). Over the years, CERL […]
Read moreThe Italian translation of the Common Practices for National Bibliographies in the Digital Age was recently completed and has now been published in the IFLA Repository: Pratiche condivise per le bibliografie nazionali nell’era digitale
Read moreMauro Guerrini, a member of the Bibliography Standing Committee, recently published the book From Cataloguing to Metadata Creation: A Cultural and Methodological Introduction. More information about the book, along with information on purchasing the book, can be found at: https://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/?K=9781783306282
Read moreThe Cataloguing Section’s Names of Persons project webpage (https://www.ifla.org/g/cataloguing/names-of-persons/) has a new file from Poland for Polish language authors. The file follows the usual structure of NoP files: Elements forming part of a name, Additional elements to names and Order of elements in catalogue headings. The document has been prepared by the National Library of Poland (Biblioteka Narodowa). I want to […]
Read moreSandra Gisela Martin recently completed her doctoral thesis “Conceptual model for universal bibliographic control”. ABSTRACT The present research sought to establish a conceptual model for universal bibliographic control (UBC) based on the study of three epistemic axes: the legal deposit, national bibliographies, and bibliographic and authorship identifiers. The methodological approach responded to the analytical […]
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