Metadata Formats
Work Package 1 of Telematics for Libraries project BIBLINK (LB 4034) 		The BIBLINK Project
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1. Document Control

IssueDate of IssueComments
v0.818 December 1996Final version
1.023 December 1996Formal authorised version.

1.1 Abstract

This report, written as a deliverable for Work Package 1 for the EC BIBLINK project, considers metadata referring to electronic resources in the context of the information flow from publishers to national bibliographic agencies. It makes recommendations to the project regarding metadata formats for use in this context. The report analyses the bibliographic link between publishers and national bibliographic agencies, in order to explicate current approaches to encoding metadata. It suggests a typology of metadata formats to assist in review of the characteristics of various metadata formats. The metadata requirements of national libraries are reviewed based on a questionnaire survey of partner libraries. Candidate metadata formats are identified for further consideration and the service and technical contexts in which they are used are reviewed. Possibilities for moving between formats are illustrated by various mappings.

1.2 Keywords

BIBLINK, metadata, library, bibliography, MARC, publisher.

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