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Support a Library’s Operational Needs

Any bibliographic resource metadata management system needs to support the operational needs of a variety of Library contexts, some of which are:

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Appendices

1. Terminology

 

TermDefinition
Usage 
AuthorityThe organisation (e.g. Library of Congress) responsible for an established particular form of a concept (e.g. subject or person)
Bibliographic MetadataMetadata describing a bibliographic resource such as title, author(s), publisher, date and place of publication, edition, standard numbers (identifiers?), subjects, format[1]
Electronic Entitlement

The access granted to an organisation, allowing it to an electronic resource

EntitlementThe access granted to an organisation, allowing it to a resource
External InstanceAn instance whose authoritative representation is owned by an external bibliographic metadata knowledge base
HoldingsAll resources contained within or accessible via a given library
Knowledge BaseAn external source of metadata related to resources
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 / ImportThe act of importing, or ingesting, and processing information from an external vendor[1]
InstanceA material embodiment of a resource, e.g. a particular published form[2]
Internal InstanceAn 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 
Physical ItemAn physical item is an physical copy of an Instance[2] Ownership of which effectively entitles an organisation to use it
Loan 
Management Metadata 
Metadata 
Package 
Platform 
Resource 

Resource Management

 
Source Record 
Subscription 

 

2. References

  1. FOLIO Product Council, Glossary of Terms, Available at https://wiki.folio.org/display/PC/Glossary+of+Terms (accessed 2016-11-09)

  2. 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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