National Bibliographic Agencies Research Articles

Data Visualisation of the National Bibliography of Sweden in 2015–2022

The aim of the article is to analyse the experience of visualising the national bibliography data as a method of studying the documentary flow of the country’s publishing products, and as a means of imaging publishing industry statistics (using the example of Sweden). Research methods. Achieving the set goal is carried out using a system of general scientific and special methods: theoretical (analysis, synthesis, generalisation, etc.), empirical (description), review and analytical, comparative, statistical, etc.). The methodological basis of the study are general scientific principles of objectivity, complexity, continuity and comprehensiveness. From the standpoint of scientific methodology, the issue is studied on the system approach basis. Scientific novelty. The conducted analysis of the project in data visualisation of the national bibliography of Sweden presents an original approach to imaging some certain bibliographic data set, studying the documentary flow of publishing products, conducting publishing statistics, and informing users more widely in an accessible form. Main conclusions. The national bibliography of Sweden presents current and quality statistics data on the country’s publishing products. Implemented by the Royal Library of Sweden, the project in bibliographic data visualisation shows that the national bibliography, as an authoritative and transparent indicator of tendencies in Swedish book publishing, makes it possible not only to analyse the products publication, but also to clearly and definitely visualise and illustrate it. Visualisation makes it possible to identify certain relationships in the set of information about new publications, to display the distribution of data, as well as composition and comparison. The project demonstrates the ability of the Royal Library of Sweden, as a national bibliographic agency, to effectively and efficiently adapt to the modern media-landscape, and respond to the current demands of time and the users’ needs. Mastering the Swedish experience in data visualisation can contribute to improving the Ukrainian bibliographic practice and transformation of the national bibliography of Ukraine in the digital environment.

Il controllo bibliografico nell’era digitale: identificatori, metadati, punti d’accesso e rispetto del contesto culturale e linguistico

The paper takes up and develops the inaugural speech held the author at the International Conference Bibliographic Control in the Digital Ecosystem (Florence, 8th-12th February 2021). The idea of universal bibliographic (UBC) control has been present for centuries in the history of cataloguing and is based on the humanistic ideal of sharing recorded knowledge produced anywhere in the world. In the contemporary era, IFLA has played a central role in universal bibliographic control, stimulating national bibliographic agencies and other institutions to promote standards and collaborations that go beyond the national sphere, leading to multicenter and even more cooperative bibliographic control. The tradition of cataloguing also grows and is enriched by the dialogue with different communities and users’ groups. The free reuse of data can take place in contexts very different from the original ones, multiplying for all the opportunities for universal access and the production of new knowledge: the UBC, therefore, must now look at interoperability and flexibility in the dialogue with the various communities of stakeholders and with the cultural institutions.

National bibliography in the digital age: international recommendations and domestic experience

The main directions of the development of the national bibliogra-phy in the modern world, the problems of the formation of the system of the national bibliography in Russia, issues related to the current national bibliogra-phy, retrospective national bibliography are presented. The activity of the IFLA Bibliography Section on the regulation of the activity of national bibliographic agencies and the creation of national bibliographic resources is covered. The article describes the activity of the National Bibliographic Agency in Russia (Russian Book Chamber), the National Library of Russia and their role in the creation of a national bibliography in the digital age.

National bibliography in Asia, Africa and Latin America

The review of the national bibliography (NB) of Asia, Africa and Latin America is based on materials collected by the author until 2018. Any discussion of the national bibliography should be conceptually and structurally based on an analysis of the political and economic situation in the country. Such a large-scale approach is especially important for the states of Asia, Africa and Latin America — regions that break the contradictions and paradoxes that complicate the process of forming a national bibliography. The proposed material provides an idea of the development of the national bibliography of the countries of the outlined region. In particular, aspects of the NB formation are considered in detail: historical preconditions for creating a national bibliography, the presence or absence of a law on mandatory copies, the national bibliographic agency, the frequency of bibliographic indexes, the state of electronic resources, automation of revenue processing. It is noted that the national bibliography was created to ensure accounting and comprehensive systematization of products sold in a tangible format and published within clearly defined government entities. The current stage of its development is characterized primarily by the creation of international systems of bibliographic information, the integrated participants of which are the national bibliographic services of almost all countries.

African Book Industry Data & the State of African National Bibliographies

Abstract No less than three international meetings on publishing in Africa have taken place recently, which have been followed with detailed action plawns. Among many other recommendations, calls for action to find solutions to perennial problems, as well as discussions focusing on sectorial innovation and revitalization of the African book industries, pwarticipants in all three meetings were strongly urged to start collecting and disseminating book industry data. It is true that reliable figures of book publishing output for the continent of Africa do not exist at the present time, with the exception of a very small number of countries, notably South Africa and Morocco. Meantime the state of African national bibliographies, which can form the groundwork of book industry data, presents a picture of neglect for the most part, with many national bibliographies seriously in arrears, currently dormant, or having ceased publication altogether. Only a small number are accessible in digital formats. Book publishing data and book production statistics are important elements in measuring the growth and vitality of indigenous publishing in any part of the world. In the absence of such data for most of the African continent, there is a need for research, analysis, documentation, and systematic gathering of current, reliable data and statistics on the whole book sector in Africa. However, there are huge challenges and complexities in the goal of collecting data for book industry surveys, which must not be underestimated. Many questions will need to be asked: for example, how is data going to be collected and analysed; what will be the parameters; and what are going to be the sources and the methods? Who should be responsible for undertaking the research and the compilation of such book industry data; and, crucially, who is going to fund the research and the data gathering process on a systematic and ongoing basis? Collecting book industry data is closely interrelated with the publication of national bibliographies and, in addition to examining the issues and challenges relating to the creation of book industry statistics, this paper also provides an analysis of the current state of national bibliographies in Africa, as well as linked matters such as legal deposit legislation, and compliance of legal deposit. Most national libraries and bibliographic agencies in Africa continue to operate under severe constraints, and have been chronically underfunded by their governments for the past four decades or more. An analysis of the current status of African national bibliographies sadly presents a dismal picture. It is unlikely that reliable data for the African book industries can be collected and published without the input and full cooperation of national libraries or bibliographic agencies. There is equally an urgent need for much more active collaboration and interaction between the agencies producing national bibliographies with publishers and book trade associations in each African country. Any attempts to revive the fortunes of African national libraries, and the resumption of publication of high quality and timely national bibliographies, will amount to a formidable task. This paper offers a range of suggestions and recommendations how the situation might be addressed and improved, but also points out that regular compilation of a national bibliography, and effective maintenance of legal deposit, necessitates adequate staff in terms of both numbers and expertise, which is not the case at this time.

O Virtual International Authority File – VIAF e a agregação de valores por metadados de autoridade

O Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) é um consórcio de cooperação internacional oferecido pela, por meio do qual tem sido estabelecida a cooperação entre agências e bibliotecas nacionais em diversas localidades do mundo, na agregação de valores e disponibilização de arquivos de autoridade em Linked Open Data. O consórcio foi idealizado a partir de fundamentos, conceitos e tecnologias estabelecidos na catalogação que, diante de limitações tecnológicas, têm sido convertidos a partir das recomendações do World Wide Web Consortium para a publicação de dados vinculados, o que proporciona infraestrutura para o intercâmbio e compartilhamento de dados de autoridade na Web de dados, além da construção de vocabulários de valor de alto nível. Este estudo tem por objetivo apresentar e descrever os fundamentos, conceitos e tecnologias envolvidas no desenvolvimento do VIAF. O estudo, realizado por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, apresenta como resultados a relação entre os conceitos de controle de autoridade, controle de bibliográfico, Linked Data, entre outros, com a infraestrutura estabelecida no VIAF, assim como a contribuição do consórcio na unificação de variações nacionais nas descrições de valor, por meio da formação de cluster que proporciona controle terminológico de valores que contemplam diversidade linguística e cultural. Conclui-se que o VIAF representa uma iniciativa democrática de cooperação a nível internacional e que pode ser utilizado tanto como uma fonte confiável de arquivos de autoridade para instituições bibliotecárias, quanto para as comunidades da Web de dados.Palavras-chave: Virtual International Authority File – VIAF. Controle de autoridade. Metadado. Vocabulários de valor. Catalogação.Link: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rdbci/article/view/8647488

O Virtual International Authority File – VIAF e a agregação de valores por metadados de autoridade

O Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) é um consórcio de cooperação internacional oferecido pela, por meio do qual tem sido estabelecida a cooperação entre agências e bibliotecas nacionais em diversas localidades do mundo, na agregação de valores e disponibilização de arquivos de autoridade em Linked Open Data. O consórcio foi idealizado a partir de fundamentos, conceitos e tecnologias estabelecidos na catalogação que, diante de limitações tecnológicas, têm sido convertidos a partir das recomendações do World Wide Web Consortium para a publicação de dados vinculados, o que proporciona infraestrutura para o intercâmbio e compartilhamento de dados de autoridade na Web de dados, além da construção de vocabulários de valor de alto nível. Este estudo tem por objetivo apresentar e descrever os fundamentos, conceitos e tecnologias envolvidas no desenvolvimento do VIAF. O estudo, realizado por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, apresenta como resultados a relação entre os conceitos de controle de autoridade, controle de bibliográfico, Linked Data, entre outros, com a infraestrutura estabelecida no VIAF, assim como a contribuição do consórcio na unificação de variações nacionais nas descrições de valor, por meio da formação de cluster que proporciona controle terminológico de valores que contemplam diversidade linguística e cultural. Conclui-se que o VIAF representa uma iniciativa democrática de cooperação a nível internacional e que pode ser utilizado tanto como uma fonte confiável de arquivos de autoridade para instituições bibliotecárias, quanto para as comunidades da Web de dados.

The Virtual International Authority File as a perspective vector for further development

The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) is a joint international project of national libraries and organizations generating name authority files. The origins of VIAF project, VIAF organizational structure, its goals and tasks are described, project members are introduced. The VIAF architecture and the components are examined in particular, search features are characterized. The author concludes that the VIAF project becomes a component of the Semantic web structure and a model for presenting library linked data internationally. The VIAF long-term goal is to integrate authority name records of the authority files being generated by national libraries and bibliographic agencies into a single authority control service.

A Study on the Extended Roles of National Bibliographic Agencies in Digital Information Environments

A Study on the Extended Roles of National Bibliographic Agencies in Digital Information Environments

Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies

The Working Group on Guidelines for Subject Access by National Bibliographic Agencies was established by IFLA's Classification and Indexing Section in 2004. The main objectives were to • Consider t...

Bibliographic standards and Linked Data. Towards a collaboration between cultural and commercial sectors

The Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information (ICCU) is the National Bibliographic Agency for the coordination and dissemination of international standards and cataloguing rules within Italian libraries. Linked Heritage, the European project coordinated by ICCU, will contribute large quantities of new content to Europeana, from both the public and private sectors. The Work Package 4 Public private partnership is working to produce an innovative investigation that highlights the differences between metadata creation in the cultural sector (libraries, museums and archives), compared with the metadata of commercial sector. The work which the Group is carrying out, will point out the different roles and purposes between the public and private sectors: how commercial metadata can enrich the data with more information giving potential benefits and new services to Europeana users, while libraries models and standards provide stability, harmonization and an higher level of granularity of the data in order to facilitate the functions of resource discovery. WP4 Public private partnership will offer an opportunity of producing several metadata mappings. This paper analyzes the enriched information that can be offered beyond the traditional bibliographic description.

Open access to national bibliography:Polish approach

PurposeAlthough the “open access” and “bibliography” appear to be contradictory concepts, as the first applies to the idea of direct and unrestricted access and the use of the resources' content and the latter refers to the list of resources' descriptions, the issue of open access to bibliography is widely discussed by the librarians' community nowadays. This paper aims to elaborate on the subject of the Polish national bibliographic agency's approach along with its experiences and problems.Design/methodology/approach“Open Access to National Bibliographies: Best Practices and Business Models” was the subject of the Bibliographic Section's session of the IFLA World Library and Information Congress that took place in Gothenburg in 2010. This article is based on a discussion paper presented at the session.FindingsThe better realization of the idea of “open access” to bibliography needs more effort and further cooperation among the libraries, publishers and institutions of law especially in respect of copyright, legal deposit and press laws. International exchange of experience and popularization of good practice in this field is necessary for success and inclusion of the national bibliography into open bibliographic universe.Originality/valueThe Polish National Bibliography is a public good, i.e. a non‐commercial product. Its principal aim is to give complete and reliable bibliographic data about the intellectual and cultural heritage and to make them easily accessible not only for librarians and other actors of the publishing market, but also for the general public.

National Bibliography of Georgia: Past, Present, Future

In the Republic of Georgia, the National Parliamentary Library took over responsibility for the national bibliographic agency in 2006. Before this, the agency responsible for bibliographic control and statistics was the Georgian Book Chamber [Cignis palata] founded in 1924 as part of the Soviet system of national book chambers. There is currently no national bibliography in Georgia due to the lack of a legal deposit law and no legal infrastructure relating to libraries or national bibliography. The National Parliamentary Library, which assigns ISBNs and ISSNs, relies on an informal agreement with publishers to collect one copy of each publication, and estimates that it receives on this basis about 80–85% of publications. All relevant professionals and organizations, including the Georgian Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, recognize the importance of re-establishing the national bibliography and are working towards this aim.

The Contribution of the Italian National Bibliographic Agency to the Development of Tools for Subject Indexing

National bibliographic agencies can play a crucial role in the creation of standards and tools for the recording of and access to resources and bibliographic information, and contribute to their development and continual maintenance. The National Central Library of Florence has recently created a new system of indexing which is intended to be used by all Italian libraries. The new system is designed to represent a real renovation and re-foundation of subject indexing in light of modern principles and standards. This paper deals with the contribution offered by the Italian National Bibliographic Agency (which edits and publishes the Italian National Bibliography) in the creation, development, and maintenance of the new indexing system through the skills and knowledge which were gained by the actual application of this everyday tool.

IFLA FRAD 모형이 관련 표준에 미친 영향 연구

이 연구는 IFLA에서 연구되고 있는 ‘전거데이터의 기능상의 요건’(FRAD)을 FRAR에서의 변화 양상을 중심으로 명확히 이해하기 위한 것이다. 또한 FRAD가 RDA와 MARC21에 끼친 영향을 분석함으로 FRAD와 관련 규칙과의 관계를 정립하였고, 전거제어를 위한 IFLA의 활동에 비추어 국내 전거제어 관련 목록 규칙과 포맷, 주요 전거DB구축 현황을 검토하였다. 이런 분석을 토대로 국내 전거제어 표준을 위한 고려사항으로 접근점제어방식, 적용범위 확대, 개체-관계 모형과 같은 새로운 접근방식의 도입, 국가서지작성기관의 역할 강화 등을 살펴보았다. 이 연구결과는 전거제어를 위한 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

National Bibliographies of the Post-Soviet Central Asian States

ABSTRACT After briefly summarizing information about the Central Asian countries and their libraries, the authors discuss the challenges facing the national bibliographic agencies there. In Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, the national bibliographies have ceased. In the other three countries, national bibliographic indexes are published, but only in print format, and they do not cover non-print material. Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are actively working to modernize their national bibliographies. Bibliographers in the other countries are ready to move to international standards and automation, but are hindered by logistical and financial problems. They would benefit greatly from assistance by the international bibliographic community.

The Role Of Computer In Bibliographic Control Of Locally Published Materials In Nigeria

The Nigerian society has become sophisticated and need a variety of information to carry out its activities successfully. This paper emphasis the role of National Library as the only institution backed by legal deposit decree to act as the National Bibliographic Agency of Nigeria. This paper highlights the supposed role of National Library in the area of Bibliographic control as collection of both published and unpublished materials print and non-print including papers presented at seminars, conference of learned associations, research institutes, universities and ministries. The paper also brings to focus the subjects\' coverage in National Bibliography of Nigeria between 2001 and 2005. Also discusses the factors responsible for the poor state of Bibliographic control and those attempts made to correct the situation. A call for the establishment of an automated bibliographic control system needed to solve the present bibliographic problem in Nigeria. IFE PsychologIA Vol. 15 (2) 2007: pp. 212-225

The Bibliografia Nazionale Italiana and Control of Access Points

SUMMARY In its role as a national bibliographic agency, the Bibliografia Nazionale Italiana (BNI) has never been in a position to fulfill what should be one of its main functions: authority control. Despite the creation of various committees, studies, and projects, and the close relationship between the BNI and the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN), no plan of action with regard to authority control, whether shared or developed in consultation, has been produced to date. Recently, a significant result was achieved: the specification of the new BNI/UNIMARC database, structured according to authority control principles. And in collaboration with the Region of Tuscany, a project for control of access points destined for the users and librarians of that region is in progress, providing the opportunity to initiate the systematic control of BNI access points. The BNI is now in a position to begin to realize the first objective recommended by the IFLA Working Group on an International Authority System more than twenty years ago: to establish authority headings, including cross-references, for its bibliographic records.

Names of the Far East: Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Authority Control

SUMMARY Personal names in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean appear not only in domestic publications but also in publications of foreign regions in original, transcribed, and transliterated forms, and produce misleading searches and confusion among information users. National bibliographic control in China, Japan, and Korea is reviewed to determine the status and common tasks. Three workshops were held discussing name authority control in the region in 2001 and 2002. IFLA's work on UBC/IM as well as FRBR and VIAF were introduced in the workshops to set a framework for regional development. Future regional cooperation was pursued among national bibliographic agencies in East Asia.

Bibliographic Control and Authority Control from Paris Principles to the Present

SUMMARY Forty years ago, the ICCP in Paris laid the foundations of international co-operation in descriptive cataloging without explicitly speaking of authority control. Some of the factors in the evolution of authority control are the development of catalogs (from card catalog to local automation, to today's OPAC on the Web) and services provided by libraries (from individual service to local users to system networks, to the World Wide Web), as well as international agreements on cataloging (from Paris Principles to the UBC programme, to the report on Mandatory Data Elements for Internationally Shared Resource Authority Records). This evolution progressed from the principle of uniform heading to the definition of authority entries and records, and from the responsibility of national bibliographic agencies for the form of the names of their own authors to be shared internationally to the concept of authorized equivalent heading. Some issues of the present state are the persisting differences among national rules and the aim of respecting both local culture and language and international readability.