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Reduce repeated cataloguing effort within organisations
Allow organisations to transition to FOLIO incrementally
Establish the groundwork for support of data formats beyond MARC and bibliographic standards beyond AACR2 or RDA
Unify electronic and physical resource management where possible
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All efforts carry some risks, this is a partial list of identified (known) risks surrounding this work.
| Summary | Likelihood | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Overly specific metadata formats and representations (e.g. too predominantly coupled to MARC21) | ||
Appendices
1. Terminology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Access / Usage | |
| Authority | The organisation (e.g. Library of Congress) responsible for an established particular form of a concept (e.g. subject or person) |
| Bibliographic Metadata | Metadata describing a bibliographic resource such as title, author(s), publisher, date and place of publication, edition, standard numbers (identifiers?), subjects, format[1] |
| Entitlement | |
| External Instance | An instance whose authoritative representation is owned by an external bibliographic metadata knowledge base |
| Holdings | All resources contained within or accessible via a given library |
| Holdings metadata | |
| Knowledge Base | An external source of (bibliographic) metadata |
| Identifier (standard number?) | A alphanumeric string used as a unique identifier for a resource. Some identifier types have established validation rules (e.g. ISBN and ISSN)[1] |
| Ingest / Import | The act of importing, or ingesting, and processing information from an external vendor[1] |
| Instance | A material embodiment of a resource, e.g. a particular published form[2] |
| Internal Instance | An instance whose authoritative representation is locally scoped to the organisation whose holdings/catalog contains one or more copies. May be derived from an External Instance. |
| Inventory | |
| Item | An item is an actual copy of an Instance[2] |
| Loan | |
| Metadata | |
| Organisation | |
| Package | |
| Platform | |
| Resource | |
Resource Management | |
| Source Record | |
| Subscription |
2. References
FOLIO Product Council, Glossary of Terms, Available at https://wiki.folio.org/display/PC/Glossary+of+Terms (accessed 2016-11-09)
Library of Congress, Overview of the BIBFRAME 2.0 model, Available at https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/docs/bibframe2-model.html (accessed 2016-11-09)
3. Assumptions
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