Streamling Book Metadata Workflow
By Paul Biba
Thanks to Resource Shelf for this. You can find the white paper here (PDF). Here’s the announcement:
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and OCLC announce the publication of a white paper on Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow, written by consultant Judy Luther (President, Informed Strategies), that analyzes the current state of metadata creation, exchange, and use throughout the book supply chain.
With the number of book formats multiplying and the amount of digital content growing rapidly, the metadata required to support the discovery, sale, and use of content by a global audience is increasing exponentially. At the same time, economic pressures on all stakeholders in the supply chain—from publishers to wholesalers to booksellers to metadata suppliers and to librarians—present greater challenges for providing quality and comprehensive metadata at every point in the cycle.
Through interviews with over 30 industry representatives, Luther has created a book metadata exchange map illustrating the workflow and metadata exchange and has identified opportunities for eliminating redundancies and making the entire process more economical.
Leave a Reply