A project being undertaken by Curtis+Cartwright with JISC funding in 2009, exploring the legal issues associated with the sharing and reuse of library catalogue records.
You can use this website to clarify and advance your understanding of what you are entitled to do with the bibliographic records which you hold within your institutional library catalogue.
The Metadata Registry provides services to developers and consumers of controlled vocabularies and is one of the first production deployments of the RDF-based Semantic Web Community's Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
This Task Group is for collaborative work to enable broader use of the Resource Description and Access (RDA), building on agreements made at a [WWW]meeting held at the British Library April 30/May 1, 2007. Participants in the meeting came from DCMI and other Semantic Web groups, and the RDA development effort. The Task Group is led by Diane Hillmann (then of Cornell University, now at Syracuse University) and Gordon Dunsire of Strathclyde University.
The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) is the new name of the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR. The JSC was responsible for maintaining the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, and is now working on a new code, “RDA: Resource Description and Access” scheduled to be released at the end of November 2009.
A. Pohl. Bibliotheksdienst, 43 (3):
274--290(марта 2009)The article gives an overview over the background, genesis, content and critic of OCLC's proposed metadata policy for WorldCat records. In the end it poses questions for an approach on licensing bibliographic data in germany..