Wikidata : a new perspective towards universal bibliographic control
ID: 5110728
ISSN: 2038-1026
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291-311 p.
NOTE
- Traditional UBC provides for the standardization of bibliographic records, the creation of guidelines dedicated to national bibliographic agencies, the creation of the UNIMARC format, and the curation of authority data. Bibliographic Control has deeply evolved since IFLA theorization during the Seventies of the XX Century, due to the availability of a very large range of new bibliographic tools. At the beginning of the XXI century, UBC is quite different and involves new actors. Among these, Wikidata has a background greatly different from that of libraries as institutions: it is not devoted to bibliographic data, nor it is limited to personal authority control, but its value in AC tools like VIAF and National Libraries authority files is undiscussed.
- After a presentation on how Wikidata items describe and identify bibliographic entities, the authors underline how the existence, use and reuse of Wikidata affect the way the professional community thinks about UBC. Wikidata is a clear example of the need for a new approach to identification and description, that are deeply intertwined. Secondly, from a Wikidata perspective, the relevance of globally preferred and variant access points is lessened. Moreover, descriptions in Wikidata - although conceptually very similar to the traditional one - present differences and potentialities that a traditional description does not have and cannot have. Also from a theoretical perspective, Wikidata offers a pragmatic way to think globally and act locally. In fact, it shows that there is no need for one standardization of practices for establishing the headings and structure of authority records in one international form;.
- instead, users' convenience can be achieved by a technological infrastructure capable to present to each user the information about an entity in its own language and script. Additionally, Wikidata is the most evident example of the distributed and diffused approach of the semantic web to the issue of the universal identification of the entities. Also, Wikidata identification and description show that authority and bibliographic control must be tackled as just a part of the more general topic of the creation of a knowledge graph of all human knowledge by means of linked open data. Lastly, this objective cannot be achieved only by contribution, cooperation, and networking of large national agencies (as in VIAF), as a larger number of stakeholders must be involved to achieve a UBC also including the full indexing of any kind of scientific communication [Publisher's text].
KEYWORDS
- UBC, Universal Bibliographic Control, Wikidata, Metadata, Description, Identification
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- Universal Bibliographic Control today : preliminary remarks
- Conference BC 2021
- Universal bibliographic control in the digital ecosystem : opportunities and challenges
- Standards in a new bibliographic world
- Bibliographic control in the fifth information age.
- Follow me to the library! : Bibliographic data in a discovery driven world
- Collocation and Hubs : Fundamental and New Version
- Universal bibliographic control in the semantic web : Opportunities and challenges for the reconciliation of bibliographic data models
- Control or Chaos : Embracing Change and Harnessing Innovation in an Ecosystem of Shared Bibliographic Data
- The multilingual challenge in bibliographic description and access
- Rethinking bibliographic control in the light of IFLA LRM entities : the ongoing process at the National library of France
- The future of bibliographic services in light of new concepts of authority control
- New Challenges in Metadata Management between Publishers and Libraries
- Two-dimensional books for the new Open Access academic publishing
- Bibliographic control and institutional repositories : welcome to the jungle
- In the mangrove society : a collaborative Legal Deposit management hypothesis for the preservation of and permanent access to the national cultural heritage
- Thesauri in the digital ecosystem
- How to build an Identifiers' policy : the BnF use case
- The International Standard Name Identifier : extending identity management across the global metadata supply chain
- VIAF and the linked data ecosystem
- Call me by your name : towards an authority data control shared between archives and libraries
- Shouls catalogue wade in open water?
- The National Library of Norway : policies and services
- The Italian National Bibliography today
- Artificial intelligence, machine learning and bibliographic control : DDC Short Numbers : Towards machine-based classifying
- Annif and Finto AI : Developing and Implementing Automated Subject Indexing
- Towards an open and collaborative Authority Control
- Wikidata : a new perspective towards universal bibliographic control
- Discoverability in the IIIF digital ecosystem
- Bibliographic Control of Research Datasets : reflections from the EUI Library
- Integrated Search System : evolving the authority files
- DREAM : A project about non-Latin script data
- Two Projects and a Thesaurus : Experiences in the Management, Descriptions and Indexing of Oral Sources
- The bibliographic control of music in the digital ecosystem : The case of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB)
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