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code4libbers, Interesting stuff afoot. The press release linked below is well worth a read. Apologies if you've already seen this Cheers, -Corey -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Vocabulary Mapping Framework Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:26:15 +0200 From: Frodl, Christine Reply-To: DCMI Libraries Community <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Dear list members, I want to draw your attention on this information, sent out by Norman Paskin today: List members may be interested to know of the Vocabulary Mapping Framework. The press release is available at <_http://www.doi.org/news/VMF_project_announcement_090615.pdf_>. Summary: A new initiative, the Vocabulary Mapping Framework (VMF), has been announced by a consortium of partners. This will create an extensive and authoritative mapping of vocabularies from nine major content metadata standards, creating a downloadable tool to support interoperability across communities. The mapping will also be extensible to other standards. The work builds on the principles of interoperability established in the indecs Content Model, and is an expansion of the existing RDA/ONIX Framework into a comprehensive vocabulary of resource relators and categories, which will be a superset of those used in major standards from the publisher/producer, education and bibliographic/heritage communities. The International DOI Foundation, which fully endorses this work, will provide a web hosting facility for the Framework as part of its commitment to promoting the wider use of interoperable metadata, and will use the vocabulary mapping wherever possible to support the association of metadata with DOI names. The IDF is organising an event in conjunction with the iPres2009 Digital Preservation meeting (San Francisco, October) which will consider this and wider issues: <_http://www.doi.org/doi_presentations/members_meeting_2009/index.html_>. Please pass on information or these links. Dr. Norman Paskin 5, Linkside Avenue Oxford OX2 8HY UK Tel: (+44) 1865 559070 Mobile: (+44) 7710 327569 skype: npaskin _www.tertius.ltd.uk_ <file://www.tertius.ltd.uk> _www.linkedin.com/in/normanpaskin_ <file://www.linkedin.com/in/normanpaskin> -- Christine Frodl German National Library Office for Library Standards Adickesallee 1 D-60322 Frankfurt am Main Telefon: +49-69-1525-1404 Telefax: +49-69-1525-1010 _mailto:[log in to unmask] _http://www.d-nb.de_ -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian Bobst Library, B42-LL1 New York University 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 212.998.2479 [log in to unmask]