Results from the Symposium

Symposium Outcomes and Next Steps

Facilitators:
Ruth Fischer, R2 Consulting
Ken Chad, Ken Chad Consulting
Recorders:
Cindy Cunningham, OCLC
Judy Luther, Informed Strategies

Questions to the group to facilitate discussion:

What have we learned?

What should the symposium look like next year?

What are our next steps?

What have we learned?

• Libraries and library metadata not necessarily on publisher's radar and vice versa.
• How MARC and ONIX represent misalignment of libraries and publishers.
• Structure of formats is inhibiting mutual understanding and ability to work together.
• Authors and users are important inputs to the metadata debate.
• We need to influence the ILS industry to accommodate data flexibility.
• We should View ONIX and MARC as communication mechanisms not as standards to support systems.
• Look at motivation as a way to understand who will or can do what.
• Leverage intellectual work for everyone—figure out how to use it.
• Proposals are a good way to vet ideas. Keep the conversation moving
• Identify small chunks of problem areas where we can accomplish change. The CIP process and ISNI are good place to start.

What should the symposium look like next year?

• Engage a broader spectrum of stakeholders:
  • More publishers
  • Publisher production and content management systems representation
  • LC must be represented, particularly the CIP program
  • ILS representation
  • Public library representation
• Topics:
  • The future of ONIX for next generation cataloging
  • Reuse of metadata from different systems
  • Collaborative models and work flows
  • New business models
  • Open source for exchange of bibliographic information
  • Solicit and collect proposals for new models through the year and use discussion of proposed new models to stimulate response
  • Implications of ILS systems in new models

Next steps:

• Plan ongoing events to continue dialog and work.
• Collaborative work on a data model of the chain to better understand data needs and data flow.
• Requirements for each sector—what data elements needed for which applications/uses.
• Expose publishers to entire value chain and evaluate data needs by community—library, vendor end users.
• Analyze the importance of authority work in various contexts.
• Explore possibilities for use of XML wrapper.
• Explore subject work across communities.
  • Explore how to make salient schema available and accessible for wider use.
  • Analyze the data flows that subject metadata support.

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