UNIMARC and Friends: Charting the New Landscape of Library Standards: Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Lisbon, 20-21 March 2006

With the expansion of the World Wide Web during the last decade, libraries and their standards face an ever-complex environment, with new types, genres and forms of information resources. Changing information network structures and the emergence of new retrieval methods all play their roles. A three day conference was held in Lisbon, Portugal in March 2006, in order to review the current state of bibliographic standards and to discuss a number of questions in charting a future for their development. Frontmatter Contents List of Contributors Preface Welcome address IFLA’s Evolving Programme to Produce and Promote the International Standard Bibliographic Descriptions: Past, Present, and Future The Future of Cataloguing Codes and Systems: IME ICC, FRBR, and RDA Modelling Bibliographic Information: Purposes, Prospects, Potential Extending FRBR Concepts to Authority Data IFLA UBCM Working Group on FRANAR Recommendations for Potential Changes in the UNIMARC Authorities Format BiblioML and AuthoritiesML. An XML Application for Bibliographic and Authority Data Records, Based on the UNIMARC Bibliographic and Authorities Formats UNIMARC’s Embedded Fields and MarcXchange: Unexpected Scenarios UNIMARC and XML A new OPAC for BNCF Using Open Source Software, XML and UNIMARC Evolving Standards: IFLA/ICABS and ISO/TC46 ICABS – Umbrella for Multifaceted Activities in the Area of Bibliographic and Resource Control UNIMARC – Future Perspectives Main description: With the expansion of the World Wide Web during the last decade, libraries and their standards face an ever-complex environment, with new types, genres and forms of information resources. Changing information network structures and the emergence of new retrieval methods all play their roles. A three day conference was held in Lisbon, Portugal in March 2006, in order to review the current state of bibliographic standards and to discuss a number of questions in charting a future for their development