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IFLA Metadata Newsletter Volume 7, Number 1, June 2021 Bibliography Section Cataloguing Section Subject Analysis and Access Section ISSN 2414-3243 IFLA Metadata Newsletter Volume 7, Number 1, June 2021 The International Conference: Bibliographic Control in the Digital Ecosystem, 8-12 February 2021 .............. 37 Table of Contents The III International Bibliographic Letter from the Chairs ...................................4 Congress .................................................. 38 Section News .................................................5 Report on the American Library Bibliography Section .................................5 Association’s Core Metadata and Collections Section, Subject Analysis National and Regional News.......................12 Committee, 2021 Midwinter Meeting, News from Belgium .................................12 Virtual Meeting on February 26, 2021 ... 41 News from Canada ..................................14 EDUG Virtual Meeting, May 5-6, 2021 ... 41 News from China .....................................15 Standards News........................................... 42 News from Colombia ..............................16 Cataloging Code of Ethics........................ 42 News from the Czech Republic ...............16 Report on the Nordic Networking Group on Bibliographic and Infrastructure Topics News from Finland ..................................18 (NNG), Annual Meeting, April 15, 2021.. 43 News from France ...................................20 Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) ...... 45 News from Germany ...............................22 News from the RDA Steering Committee News from the Netherlands ...................24 ................................................................. 46 News from Russia ....................................25 Upcoming Events ......................................... 50 News from Sweden .................................28 IFLA WLIC 2021 - 17-19 August .............. 50 News from the United States .................29 BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe - 5th Meeting Reports ..........................................34 Annual Meeting September 21-23 ......... 51 New horizons: emerging metadata standards and practices in the 21st century .................................................................34 Page 2/51 IFLA Metadata Newsletter Volume 7, Number 1, June 2021 About the IFLA Metadata Newsletter The newsletter is published twice a year (June Subject Analysis and Access Section: and December). Harriet Aagaard Swedish Dewey Editorial Office, Contributions are welcome at any time. Metadata and Systems Support, National Library of Sweden; IFLA Please contact any of our editors: Metadata Newsletter SAA Co-Editor Email: [email protected] Bibliography Section: Caroline Saccucci Jay Weitz Chief, U.S. Programs, Law, and Senior Consulting Database Specialist, Literature Division, Library of WorldCat Metadata Quality, OCLC, Congress, USA; SAA Member USA; IFLA Metadata Newsletter BIBS Co-Editor Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Cataloguing Section: Ongoing projects, activities, and publications can be found at: Marja-Liisa Seppäla http://www.ifla.org/bibliography Development Manager, National Library of Finland; IFLA Metadata http://www.ifla.org/en/cataloguing Newsletter CATS Co-Editor https://www.ifla.org/subject-analysis- Email: marja- and-access [email protected] Priscilla Pun Head of Technical Process Unit, University of Macau Library, China; CATS Corresponding Member Email: [email protected] Page 3/51 IFLA Metadata Newsletter Volume 7, Number 1, June 2021 LETTER FROM THE CHAIRS Dear colleagues, The year so far has been rich in online, international Members of our sections were involved in the conferences around metadata and bibliographic organisation of all 3 events, gave presentations, and control: the conference on Bibliographic Control in participated in the extensive, diverse, and inspiring the Digital Ecosystem, organized by the University discussions. of Florence in February, the III International Bibliographic Congress, Bibliographic Information in Digital Culture, organized by the State Public With the new IFLA structure and elections under Scientific and Technical Library of the Siberian way, this is a time of renewal. We are looking Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in forward to welcoming new members in our Novosibirsk, and, just as we prepare this issue of the sections, who may carry on some of our planned Metadata newsletter, the joint webinar organized activities but may also bring new ideas, and we are by our 3 sections, New horizons: emerging grateful to our outgoing members for their metadata standards and practices in the 21st involvement and contributions over the past years. century. Athena Salaba, Chair of the Vincent Boulet, Chair of the Mathilde Koskas, Chair of the Subject Analysis and Access Cataloguing Section Standing Bibliography Section Standing Section Standing Committee Committee Committee Page 4/51 IFLA Metadata Newsletter Volume 7, Number 1, June 2021 SECTION NEWS 10 May IBLIOGRAPHY ECTION B S “Session 8 during the 3rd International Bibliographic Congress, April 30, 2021” What's new in the Bibliography Blog by Marina Neshcheret By Pat Riva (Information Coordinator, Bibliography 3 June Section) “XXV Anniversary Annual Conference of the Russian Library Association, May 2021” The Bibliography Section has restarted the by Marina Neshcheret Bibliography Blog in 2021. Our recent articles report on conferences and sessions relevant to UBC and national bibliography. The National Bibliographic Register, putting We welcome your comments via the Blog, and any national bibliographies in context ideas for future posts. By Pat Riva (Information Coordinator, Bibliography Section) 8 March “ISNI in Quebec” The Bibliography Section maintains a resource by Pat Riva gathering descriptions of national bibliographies world-wide, the National Bibliographic Register (NBR). There are 48 profiles, contributed between 30 April 2009 and 2020. In addition to making the profiles, as submitted, available by country, the Section decided “Bibliographic Control in the Digital Ecosystem, to set up a system permitting comparative analysis. International Conference, February 8-12, 2021” In an earlier instalment (IFLA Metadata Newsletter, by Pat Riva v.3, no.2 (December 2017), p.26-28.), I presented charts on some of the standards used, with data from section 6 of the registry template, based on the 45 3 May profiles contributed at that time. I have been continuing to analyse the entries question by “Bibliographic Information in Digital Culture, 3rd question, and in this instalment present the analysis International Bibliographic Congress, April 27-30, for sections 3, 5, and part of 4. The charts presented 2021” in this article, as well as updated versions of by Pat Riva previously published charts, along with the data tables, are available for download on the NBR webpage. In categorizing the responses to carry out 5 May the comparative analysis the responses, the detail is “Panel on National Bibliographic Resources during necessarily somewhat simplified. I take responsibility the 3rd International Bibliographic Congress, April for any mistakes in the categorization due to 28, 2021” misunderstanding or oversimplifying the responses. by Pat Riva Page 5/51 IFLA Metadata Newsletter Volume 7, Number 1, June 2021 To fully appreciate the context of a specific response, The responses are seen in the graph Cooperative I encourage you to also read the NBR profile online. Structures Supporting the NBA (figure 1) Section 3: Organisation & Administration The third section of the NBR profile deals with the current structure and organisation supporting the creation of the national bibliography. The first two questions in the section ask which organization in the country is presently the primary organization responsible for national bibliographic control, and for its website. This is answered close to unanimously as being the national library (44 of 47 respondents), while 2 respondents indicated that the national bibliographic agency (NBA) is an Figure 1. Cooperative Structures Supporting the NBA, n=43 organization other than the national library, and one country indicated that primary responsibility is divided between the national library and another This question asks specifically for cooperative national bibliographic agency based on the section of relationships outside of the NBA itself, leading 20 the national bibliography. For the purposes of the respondents to explicitly mention that the national analysis, the category “national library” was applied library is the national agency for the assignment of to combined national libraries, such as national one or more of the international standard numbers library and archives, or national and university (ISBN, ISSN, ISMN). Since it was not specifically libraries. asked, even more national libraries may be international standard number assignment agencies. This also explains why only 8 respondents mentioned A closely related follow-up question asks: “What co- cooperation with an ISBN or ISSN agency, as this operative structures or relationships exist supporting would refer to cooperation with an agency that is not the production of the national bibliography?” These part of the NBA itself. Of 27 countries (56%) that can be formal or informal relationships, and may reported one or more cooperative supporting apply only to some aspects of national bibliographic relationship, 8 mentioned the national ISBN agency,