One of the purposes of this wiki is to serve as common ground for developments in the greater metadata
community. Therefore, there are links to other cataloging rules, such as the ONIX Best Practices, the Scholarly Works
Application Profile, the AGRIS Application profile, among others. The
common ground for these
differing procedures are found here under the Conceptual Outline, which is based
completely on ISBD (for the moment but based on wiki technology, this
can change) and provides a separate page in the wiki for each
bibliographical concept. The idea is to eventually bring together all
the different rules for similar bibliographical concepts. For example,
if you click on Title
and Statement of Responsibility, you will see links into the
relevant guidelines for ISBD and ONIX. If you continue into Title proper, you
will see the relevant guidelines for more rules. Comments and
attachments can be included here. On this basis, metadata creators and developers can gain some understanding into the concepts and techniques used by others in similar fields. Perhaps some agreement can be reached and perhaps not, but without understanding, no agreement can ever be possible. A lot of work remains to be done in this area and it should be interesting to observe how it develops. Preliminary notes Title and Statement of Responsibility Edition Type and extent of resource Publication, distribution, etc. Physical description Series Notes Identifiers and Terms of Availability |