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Purpose: Provides a broad framework for information exchange on current research developments, tools, and activities affecting networked information resources and metadata; coordinates and actively participates in the development and review of standards concerning networked resources and metadata in conjunction with the divisions' committees and sections, other units within ALA, and relevant outside agencies; and develops programs and fosters and sponsors education and training opportunities that contribute to and enhance an understanding of networked resources and metadata, their identity, content, technology, access, control, and use; and plans and monitors activities using Core's strategic and tactical plan as a framework.

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Call for review and comment: ISO/DIS 21127, A reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information

  • 1.  Call for review and comment: ISO/DIS 21127, A reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information

    Posted Jan 31, 2023 04:36 PM

    ISO/DIS 21127, A reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information
    This draft ISO standard is the culmination of more than a decade of standards development work by the ICOM-CIDOC (International Council of Museums, International Committee for Documentation). The primary purpose of this standard is to offer a conceptual basis for the integration, mediation, and exchange of information between cultural heritage organizations such as museums, libraries, and archives. The specific aims of the ontology, consisting of 81 classes and 160 unique properties, are to

    - serve as a common language for domain experts and IT developers when formulating requirements,
    - serve as a formal language for the identification of common information contents in different data formats; in particular to support the implementation of automatic data transformation algorithms from local to global data structures without loss of meaning. These transformation algorithms are useful for data exchange, data migration from legacy systems, data information integration, and mediation of heterogeneous sources,
    - support associative queries against integrated resources by providing a global model of the basic classes and their associations to formulate such queries, and
    - provide developers of information systems with a guide to good practice in conceptual modeling.

    Please contact Yuji Tosaka (tosaka@tcnj.edu) if you are interested in reviewing the draft standard to provide comment. A full copy of the document is available upon request.

    Feedback is requested by Friday, February 24, 2023.



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    Catherine Smith
    Head of Metadata and Archival Processing
    University of Alabama
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