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Metadata, identifiers and linking together content - Todd Carpenter
1. Metadata, identifiers
and linking together
content
Todd Carpenter
Executive Director, NISO
Council of Science Editors Annual Meeting 2015
Philadelphia, PA • • • May 18, 2015
17. A US-baed non-profit industry trade association accredited by
ANSI with 200+ members
Mission of developing and maintaining technical standards
related to information, documentation, discovery and
distribution of published materials media
Volunteer driven organization: 500+ spread out across the
world
Represent US interests to ISO TC 46 subcommittees
Also serve as Secretariat for ISO TC46/SC9 - Identification
Description
Responsible for standards like ISSN, DOI, Dublin Core
metadata, DAISY digital talking books, OpenURL, MARC
records format, and ISBN
About
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More
Standards(ish)
Organiza=ons
• IDEAlliance
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Magazine
industry,
PRISM
• Library
of
Congress
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MARC,
PREMIS,
SRU/SRW
• ALA
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AACR2,
RDA
• IDPF
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EPUB,
E-‐books
• ARMA-‐InternaNonal
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Records
Management
• OASIS
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XML
Standards
• CrossRef
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DOIs,
FundRef,
CrossMark
• IMSGlobal
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Learning
Management
Systems
• Amazon
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ASIN,
KINDLE
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25. A Few Key Concepts
In identification description
(identifiers metadata)
29. Identifiers can be but are not necessarily names
(often better if they aren’t)
IDs can be but need not be human-readable.
They also may or may not be human
understandable.
Not every attribute need be described
An ID its metadata