Vocabulary Mapping Framework & Libraries Alan Danskin Metadata & Bibliographic Standards Coordinator

2 Threat & Challenge Museum of the book? Network of knowledge OR

3 Hybrid Library Physical Collections Manuscripts Books Newspapers Serials Maps Globes Archives Sheet Music Patents Prints, Drawings, Photographs Realia Sound recordings Digital Collections Digitised “Born” digital Full text Journal Articles Newspaper Articles Books Data sets Web archive Moving images MORE STUFF MORE COMPLEX MORE DETAILED

4 Libraries and metadata Long tradition of metadata Description Access Inventory Control Technological constraints Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules “Printed rules for printed books” Linear sequences Display conventions embedded.

5 Libraries and metadata RDA: Resource Description & Access All resources Display independent Linked data Underlying models Element Set Entities Relationships Vocabularies  RDF  SKOS

6 The bibliographic continuum Product Metadata Controlled Metadata IdentificationContextualisation CommerceLibrary

7 The bibliographic dis-continuum Trade Metadata Library Metadata Mappings IdentificationContextualisation IdentificationContextualisation

8 Interference World views This is the title THIS IS THE TITLE This Is The Title Descriptive Standards Content Standards Exchange formats Semantic differences

9 RDA / ONIX framework for resource categorization A step towards semantic convergence “The objective is to develop a framework for categorizing resources in all media that will support the needs of both libraries and the publishing industry and will facilitate the transfer and use of resource description data across the two communities. “ Scope limited to vocabularies designating types of resource The framework was published in

10 Vocabulary Mapping Framework RDA/ONIX small beginning VMF is an extension of RDA/ONIX principles More standards More vocabularies VMF foundation for future development Bilateral Mappings Tools Incremental convergence

11 Linked Data