Todd Carpenter's presentation on Metadata at AAP-PSP Annual conference 2016 in Washington, DC

1. Metadata, identifiers and
linking together content
Todd Carpenter
Executive Director, NISO
AAP - PSP Annual Meeting
Washington, DC • • • February 4, 2016

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4. OK, I’ll stop talking in
angle brackets, I promise!
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5. “Why should we care,
it’s only metadata?”
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6. “Why should we care,
it’s only metadata?”
Because on the Internet,
metadata can be
more important
than the actual thing it describes.
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7. Photo: Minneapolis College
of Art and Design Library
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8. Photo: OSU Thompson Library Stacks” by Kristin Six
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9. You can’t walk the stacks
in a digital library
or browse the shelves
in an online bookstore
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Does anyone know what this is?

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Digitally,
all you can
browse or search
is metadata

12. Photo: Minneapolis College
of Art and Design Library 12
And for most books, this is the best we can give you?

13. Metadata, metadata
everywhere
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Function
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Purpose
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Domain
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Community
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This landscape in full size
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20. We all want our own

21. Do we really need
all this complexity?
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22. YES!
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Content form metadata
Metadata elements embedded
in the content file
Such as PDF, JATS, Docbook, TEI
EPUB

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Business exchange metadata
ONIX
v2.1 and v3.0 are not completely different
Upgrade if you haven’t!

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Author identification
PLEASE, PLEASE ADOPT ORCID!
There is also ISNI in other
contexts

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Taxonomies/Subject Headings
LCSH, BISAC/BIC, Thema
Domain specific taxonomies
Should you be mapping taxonomies to
your books, titles, chapters, within text?

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Managing identifiers and
metadata well
is difficult and expensive
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Managing identifiers and
metadata poorly
can be more expensive
and probably in ways you
can’t track.
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30. Thank you!
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director
tcarpenter@niso.org
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302
Baltimore, MD 21211 USA
+1 (301) 654-2512
www.niso.org