[jats-list] E-Book Metadata Recommended Practice Now Available For Public Comment

Subject: [jats-list] E-Book Metadata Recommended Practice Now Available For Public Comment
From: "Ravit David ravit.david@xxxxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 20:52:18 -0000
Hello everyone,
As promised, I'm forwarding the NISO announcement in case you have missed it.
Please share the link to the draft with anyone who might be interested in
commenting on the draft and providing feedback.
Ravit

From: NISO Announce <niso-announce@xxxxxxxx<mailto:niso-announce@xxxxxxxx>>
Subject: NISO E-Book Metadata Recommended Practice Now Available For Public
Comment

*Apologies for cross-posting*

June 18, 2020: The NISO Working Group on E-Book Bibliographic Metadata
Requirements in the Sale, Publication, Discovery, Delivery, and Preservation
Supply Chain<https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/ebmd> invites comments
on its proposed Recommended
Practice<https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/ebmd>. Everyone involved in
producing and using e-book metadata  publishers, retailers, libraries,
service providers, and preservation agencies  is encouraged to share their
feedback by August 2, 2020.

In a world where the format, transmission, and applications of e-book metadata
are changing, and where metadata workflows and data exchange are becoming ever
more automated, massive in scale, and networked, there is a crucial need for
all stakeholders to develop a shared understanding of standards, practices,
and purposes.

The Working Groups recommendations touch on several areas of focus for e-book
metadata  defining the minimal requirements for sales, discovery, delivery,
deaccessioning, and preservation purposes; identifying the best way to
transmit metadata through the supply chain; addressing the use of metadata
records and transfer of information in describing updates to metadata records
and record sets; developing rules for e-book metadata deduplication purposes;
and sharing a variety of examples of recommended practice implementation.

According to Working Group co-chair Ravit David of Scholars Portal, University
of Toronto, Working Group members, representing diverse perspectives in the
e-book landscape, shared details of varied metadata workflows and their
rationales with each other. We determined that the overall purpose of this
recommended practice should be to provide principles and examples in order to
support  a shared understanding and, where possible, alignment of our e-book
metadata practices. We feel this approach acknowledges the practicalities of
this area of work, and will improve communication and consistency across
existing guidelines and communities of practice.

The second co-chair, Alistair Morrison of Johns Hopkins University, added,
Analysis of stakeholder-specific use cases supported our decision to focus
closely on a short list of metadata elements: titles, names, dates, book
identifiers, and subjects. Recommendations involving these elements enable
basic functions of e-book metadata that apply across all stakeholder
organizations: identifying a book, matching records for the same book or
version, and distinguishing records that refer to different books or versions.
The NISO E-Book Metadata Recommended Practice supports and complements
existing e-book best practices and guidelines, such as those published by
BISG, EDItEUR, and W3C.

NISO's Associate Executive Director, Nettie Lagace, commented, "The members of
the E-Book Metadata Working Group are to be commended for their tireless
efforts to develop this recommended practice. Once finalized and implemented,
these recommendations will benefit the whole e-book community  from authors
to readers, from publishers to retailers, vendors, and libraries. NISO
welcomes feedback on this proposed recommended practice from anyone who
creates and/or uses e-book metadata

The draft Recommended Practice is available at
https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/ebmd.

About NISO

NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and maintenance of
standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective
interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research and
learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries, publishers,
information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning,
research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and
curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest
and across the entire lifecycle of information standards. NISO is a
not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO website
(https://niso.org<https://niso.org/>).

NISO
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302
Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: 301-654-2512
E-mail: nisohq@xxxxxxxx<mailto:nisohq@xxxxxxxx>




Ravit H. David, Ph.D.

Scholars Portal, OCUL

University of Toronto Library

130 St. George St.

Toronto, Ontario

Canada M5S1A5

Phone: 416-9468213

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