[Eril-l] NISO E-Book Metadata Recommended Practice Now Available For Public Comment

[NISO Announce]

*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 Group’s 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).


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