Introduction
The management of metadata, within a Knowledge Base (KB, or more than one), is an important aspect of the early work of FOLIO. This living document presents our current thinking and proposed plan for ongoing development.
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Appendices
1. Terminology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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] |
| Electronic Entitlement | The access granted to an organisation, allowing it An entitlement to an electronic resource |
| Entitlement | The access granted to an organisationorganization, allowing it to a resource |
| 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 |
| Knowledge Base | An 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 / 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 | |
| Physical Item | An 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 | The process by which the system: (1) validates whether or not a library user can borrow a library item based on defined attributes and (2) if a loan is permitted, links the item with the patron and applies certain conditions based on policies. |
| Management Metadata (or Administrative Metadata) | Data about an information resource primarily intended to facilitate its management[1] |
| Metadata | data that provides information about other data[3] |
| Package | A grouping of instances on a platform offered by a supplier under particular terms[1] |
| Platform | An interface that administers or delivers electronic resources content, or provides a route to the content, to the user[1] |
| Resource | an item that may be collected and/or made available by an organization[1] |
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 2016-1112-0915)
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)
- Merriam Webster Dictionary, available at https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metadata (accessed 2016-12-15, via Wikipedia)
3. Assumptions
4. Kabalog
Kabalog (n): Unified data model and infrastructure for conventional bibliographic metadata and E-resource Knowledge Bases.
I generally extend this definition mean an expression of the tension between a desire for the fusion of knowledge base and catalog contexts whilst keeping some of the concepts in those worlds distinct and loosely coupled.