Introduction
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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 | An entitlement to an electronic resource | ||
| Entitlement | The access granted to an organization, 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 | The group of physical items an organization owns (and is entitled to use) | ||
| Physical Item | An physical item is an physical copy of an Instance[2] Ownership of which effectively entitles an organisation to use it | ||
| Loan | 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.[1] | ||
| 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 | the practices and techniques used by librarians and library staff to track the selection, acquisition, licensing, access, maintenance, usage, evaluation, retention, and de-selection of a library’s resources[derived from 4] | ||
| Source Record | Subscription | The original representation of a record ingested from an external source (relates to records which were derived from it) | |
| Subscription | A subscription is an agreement or potential agreement between a ‘subscriber’ and a 'provider' to gain access to a set of resources, for a period of time, under specific conditions (set out in a license and/or elsewhere), and usually at a specific cost[5] |
2. References
FOLIO Product Council, Glossary of Terms, Available available at https://wiki.folio.org/display/PC/Glossary+of+Terms (accessed 2016-12-15)
Library of Congress, Overview of the BIBFRAME 2.0 model, Available 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)
- Electronic Resource Management, available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_resource_management (access 2016-12-15)
- KB+ Concepts and Terminology, available at https://knowledgebaseplus.wordpress.com/kb-support/kb-discussion-documents/kb-concepts-and-terminology/ (accessed 2016-12-15)
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.