Call for Papers

Special Issue Call for Papers:
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

ISBD: Content Bibliographic Standard

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly is currently seeking manuscripts for a special issue devoted to the evaluation and adoption of ISBD: International Standard Bibliographic Description, consolidated edition, published in 2011.

Submissions for this special issue should describe critical and even controversial argumentative opinions related to the ISBD as a content bibliographic standard. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• ISBD and its relevance to the Universal Bibliographic Control
• ISBD and FRBR, or consolidated FR family of models
• Implementation and use for special types of resources
• ISBD and metadata schemes and formats: interoperability and sustainability
• ISBD and its relevance to publishing sector: ISBD and RDA/ONIX Framework
• Publishing ISBD in RDF
• ISBD and its impact on publishing bibliographic metadata as linked open data
• Critical analysis of the survey on the use of the ISBD
• Positioning of the ISBD in future developments of library information infrastructure (Is there a future for the ISBD?)

Proposals of no more than 300 words should be sent by July 15, 2013 to the guest editors, Mirna Willer (mwiller@unizd.hr), Lynne Howarth (lynne.howarth@utoronto.ca) and John Hostage (hostage@law.harvard.edu). 

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