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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 4h

"High-quality open metadata can become the connective tissue between otherwise separate systems. When persistent identifiers, controlled vocabularies & common metadata standards are embedded in interoperable workflows...

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COMET @cometadata.bsky.social · 10h

Running a metadata enrichment project in the open? COMET pilot teams refined a Project Doc Template to record objectives, collaborators, outputs and lessons learnt, so others can trust and reuse the work. Try it and tell us what you'd change. #ScholarlyMetadata #OpenResearchInformation

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An Open Approach to Documenting Community Metadata Enrichment Projects - COMET Richer Metadata. Together.

This post outlines an open approach to documenting community-led metadata enrichment projects, providing examples from COMET’s pilot projects and template …

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📢📰The MDG Bulletin for September 2026 is now live. Read it at: email-cilip.org.uk/cr/AQi40xMQ1... #metadata#cataloguing #news #events

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group Bulletin - September 2026

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you miss the MDG Conference 2026 #MetaFutures in March? Or did you attend but want to remind yourself of the great papers & sessions from our speakers? Good news: you can catch up on recordings of Day 1 of the conference on our YouTube channel 🎞️ www.youtube.com/@CILIP_MDG #metadata #conference

Screenshot of the Metadata & Discovery Group YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@CILIP_MDG

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Laura J. Smart @ljsmart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My preprint is out: Smart, Laura J., Bourgard, Erin, Cowley, Andy, Visser, Alie, & Zoricic, Christina. "Modeling evaluation of AI enhanced metadata" Journal of Library Metadata 2026 hdl.handle.net/20.500.14721... Research data doi.org/10.5683/SP3/..., Borealis, V1 #libraries #metadata #lcsh #ai #llm

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Laura J. Smart @ljsmart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Eval rubric #AI enhanced #library #metadata, ground truth "cataloger judgement", theoretical framework, steps to determine benchmarks+hard data.Transcribed fields within 10% of benchmark, subjective fields 28-36%, 0 time savings for librarians from Alma/eBook Central hdl.handle.net/20.500.14721...

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Modeling evaluation of AI enhanced metadata

Metadata librarians at the University of Western Ontario reviewed AI enhanced bibliographic records from ProQuest Ebook Central to formalize “cataloger judgment,” explore how standard quality assessme...

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Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Books and chapters are now supported in Crossref Metadata Manager. If you register book metadata, come see how it works — Stand 4.1 H100 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 7–11 October. Or book a time to chat: bit.ly/crossref-frankfurt-2026 #FBM26 #Metadata

Crossref at Frankfurt Book Fair, 7–11 October 2026, Stand 4.1 H100, inviting visitors to talk metadata or book a meeting.

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📢New issue of Catalogue & Index! 📰 Sept 2026 issue (216) features papers from the MDG Conference 2026 #Metafutures, held at Engineers’ House, Bristol. Further papers will be published in the December issue (217). journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... #metadata #cataloguing #journal

Catalogue & Index
Periodical of the Metadata & Discovery Group, a
Special Interest Group of CILIP, the Library and
Information Association ISSN 2399-9667
September 2026, Issue 216
Editorial, The Editors
More time needed, James T. Clark and Getaneh Alemu
Authentic and artificial cataloguing, Hannes Lowagie
Can AI or Python help us catalogue books we can’t read? Adam Swann and Sally Bell
"All our wisdom is stored in the trees" Helen K. R. Williams
The Metadata Team and institutional research visibility, Helen K. R. Williams
Metadata as cultural stewardship, Bláithín Hurley
Unlocking Southeast Asia’s digital heritage, Chuin Peng Sim and Gandhimathy Durairaj
Linked data and OCLC Meridian, Sarah Glaccum
Collaborative cataloguing now!, Amy Staniforth
Metadata in motion, Fran Frenzel
Book Review: Information Science, Sergio Alonso Mislata
Minutes of the 230th MDG Committee Meeting 12 March 2026

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Academic librarians - how does your institution actually decide whether to fund collective, fee-free open access? What finally ends up moving the internal discussions from yes, or maybe to no? We're running a short, anonymous survey (10–15 mins) to find out. 📚

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What made you say yes? OBC open access library support survey

About this survey This survey is run by the Open Book Collective - a charity registered in England and Wales (charity no. 1206287). For the purposes of data protection law, the Open Book Collective is...

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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) @doabooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We've joined LinkedIn! 🎉 Connect with us for news, insights, and developments from across the #OABooks landscape, including #PRISM, new partnerships, events, and platform updates. Follow us here 👉 www.linkedin.com/company/dire...

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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Thoth Open Metadata @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

🎉 #ALPSP2026 Awards are tonight! In April, we launched Thoth 1.0, expanding our services while staying true to our goal: helping publishers create open metadata to get books discovered, accessed & preserved. We’re thrilled to be a finalist for the Award for Innovation in Publishing! 🤞

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Rethink Mental Illness @rethinkcharity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, we're here for you 💜

This image promotes World Suicide Prevention Day. It includes icons and text describing support for those bereaved by suicide, experiencing suicidal thoughts, struggling to express their feelings, supporting others, worrying about the future, and on waiting lists for support.

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Thoth Open Metadata @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

🚆 Thoth is on the road this autumn! 🍂 📍 ALPSP, Manchester | 9–10 Sept 📍 OASPA, Zagreb | 21–23 Sept 📍 Open-Access-Tage, Linz | 28–30 Sept Attending too? We’d love to catch up with publishers, libraries & fellow open infrastructures! 💬 Booking page links in the post replies 👇

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Thoth Open Metadata @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

📍 ALPSP Conference 2026 🎉 Thoth has been nominated as a Finalist of the #ALPSP2026 Award for Innovation in Scholarly Publishing 9-10 September Manchester, UK Hannah’s booking page: calendar.app.google/qj8izsbLhkKg...

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Matias Frosterus wraps up the #BIBFRAME in Europe Workshop 2026 with thanks to all the presenters & contributors, the in-person host Universitat de Barcelona & online host Casalini Libri. - Thanks all! #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

#bfwe2026 BIBFRAME Round Up Discussion Panel: Matias Frosterus, Nancy Lorimer, Tiziana Possemato, Lisa Sjögren & Gwenny Vlaemynck. Q1 what has been most surprising about implementation so far? Nancy: Human emotional response to change; fear of replacement & fascinating how people love MARC21 !

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

This is what keeps me up at night... how we get ~200 years' worth of very variable MARC collections metadata 'ready' for conversion to BIBFRAME without any additional staffing resource #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

"Bridging the Gap: Implementing BIBFRAME in Small- Staff Environments" with Joanna M. Fuchs, Brandeis University. Shifting from MARC21 to BIBFRAME presents hurdles for smaller metadata or cataloguing teams, even in an English-speaking, Global North context. #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

"¿BIBFRAME en español? From Pilot Workshop to Open Training Infrastructure for Linked Data Adoption" with Timothy Thompson & Irma Fraticelli-Rodríguez, Yale Library, & Álvaro López Bustamante, EBSCO. Contributions by Daniel M. Mugaburu & Amy Rodriguez, Yale Library #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

"Bridging the Skills Gap: Capacity Building & Training Frameworks for Effective Transition from MARC to BIBFRAME in Diverse Library Environments" with Wada Ibrahim, University of Maiduguri Nigeria Addressing BIBFRAME adoption challenges in developing nations with limited ICT infrastructure #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

"Metadata Maker as a Practical Tool for BIBFRAME Data Creation" with Myung-Ja (MJ) K. Han. & Deren Kudeki, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Patricia Lampron, University of California, & Greta Heng, San Diego State University. #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

"From the Shadows: Building Archival Entity Workflows Toward BIBFRAME" with Isabella Pilar Brouse, University of New Mexico. Using OCLC's Meridian as a Entity Management software for Archives and Special Collections #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

"Moving Marva Beyond Monographs" with Jodi Williamschen, Library of Congress. Monograph-cataloguers requested changes to Marva between 2024-2025 to support their workflows including creating Name Authority records in MARC #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

"From Records to Relationships: transforming Public Library Cataloguing in Flanders" Gwenny Vlaemynck & Hannelore Baudewyn, Open Vlacc What happens when Linked Data becomes part of every day cataloguing? Moving from MARC21 in Aleph to Linked Data in Elody Open-Source Semantic Data Platform #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

"The Alma Linked Open Data Editor: Advancing BIBFRAME Workflows in Production" with Adina Marciano, Clarivate. - Supporting BIBFRAME within the Alma system #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

"Mapping Iranian Music Information Elements to the BIBFRAME Model: Identifying Gaps and Proposing Model Extensions" with Maliheh Dorkhosh, University of Tehran. Iranian classical musical is a useful stress test for bibliographical modelling as it is generally characterised by improvisation #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

"Mapping KCR5 as content rules to BIBFRAME" with Mihwa Lee, Kongju National University, Jee-Hyun Rho, Pusan National University, & Eun-Ju Lee, Dong-eui University. The necessity of interoperability between conceptual models and cataloguing rules in Korea #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

"Modelling Shared Print Actions" with Andreas Andersson, National Library of Sweden. - Shared Print Programs are important to research libraries to ensure long term preservation of and access to print collections - they require national coordination & shared collections including metadata #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

"Mapping from RDA to BIBFRAME: Logistical and Technical Issues" with Chris Holden, Library of Congress and RDA Steering Committee. RDA: Resource Description and Access is a package of data elements, guidelines, and instructions for creating library and cultural heritage resource metadata #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

#bfwe2026 Day 2 begins with Matias Frosterus National Library of Finland on "RDA Aggregates in BIBFRAME: Two Approaches" - methods for fully implementing RDA in BIBFRAME in Finland (BFFI)

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Lyn Robinson @lynrobinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The transition from MARC records to linked data can seem to be a slow process to many in LIS. Those interested in metadata should find the posts from this conference insightful. #BIBFRAME

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

"AI Agents in an Experimental Technical Services Workflow" - Jeremy Nelson, Stanford University Constructing AI Agents to support tech services workflows - AI Agents act (not just answer); APIs scripts and commands define what they can reach #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

"Pragmatic AI and BIBFRAME" - Matt Miller, Library of Congress. Recent explorations with goal to develop useful and practical applications for AI/ML that intersect with BIBFRAME such as Vector Embeddings and Entity Reconciliation #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

"Linked Library Data transformation pipeline using local LLM to support feature vector methods in work clustering and authority record reconciliation" - Mikko Vihonen, Nitor Group. Supporting system vendors to meet Helsinki Metropolitan public libraries requirements for BIBFRAME (BFFI) #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Kevin Ford, Library of Congress Linked Data Specialist returns to the #bfwe2026 stage with "Language and Script Tags in BIBFRAME and in MARC: a success story" BCP47 - a standard method to encode language and script information in "language tags" (latest version: 2009) can be used in RDF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

"From MARC to Linked Data: Institutional Strategies and Lessons Learned from a Large-Scale BIBFRAME Implementation in Latin America" - Álvaro López Bustamente, EBSCO. University of Concepcion, Chile, used a 3 step process to migrate to BIBFRAME #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

"From MARC to BIBFRAME in a Hybrid Metadata Ecosystem: The School of Salamanca Digital Library as an Enriched Linked Open Data Case using Marva Editor" - Xavier Agenjo, Fundación Ignacio Larramendi. A compilation of digitized works in numerous libraries harvested via Hispana & Europeana #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

"BIBFRAME in Trove Metadata Manager: Future Proofing the Australian National Bibliographic Database" - Michela Goodwin, National Library of Australia. ~900 Partner Organisations across Australia contribute to the National Bibliographic Database, a MARC-based Union Catalogue. #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

#bfwe2026 Implementations: "BIBFRAME and Open Metadata Sharing - Solving the Gordian Knot of Interoperability" - Ian Bigelow, University of Alberta Library. Some observations on concerns about metadata reuse in the BIBFRAME environment.

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

"Using BIBFRAME data at scale" - Jeff Mixter & Chris Madden, OCLC. Contextualising the evolution of WorldCat - curated over 50 years by libraries around the world "built with the library community and continuously shaped by it" - not simply 630 million+ MARC records #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

"From asynchronous exchange to entity-sharing: new paradigms of the bibliographic workflow" - Tiziano Possemato & Annalisa Di Sabato, Share Family Initiative. #bfwe2026 JCricket as an Operational Entity Editor

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

"From Linked Data Cataloging to Linked Data Search" with Lisa Sjögren & Katja Naischtein of National Library of Sweden #bfwe2026 Getting Linked Data working better in the National Library of Sweden for search and discovery, as well as for cataloguing

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

#bfwe2026 - Blue Core MVP: Moving to Production in an Open BIBFRAME metadata ecosystem with Nancy Lorimer Stanford University Libraries bluecore.info Collaboration to bring BIBFRAME cataloguing to production at scale in a library-owned and operated BIBFRAME Linked Open Data Environment that is CC0

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

It's #bfwe2026 day 1 - Núria Ferran Ferrer, Dean of the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media, University of Barcelona, begins by talking about transitioning bibliographic #metadata into #LinkedOpenData to support #OpenKnowledge ecosystems - moving from expectation to reality.

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

Had a bit of a break from posting on BlueSky over the summer - now back and looking forward to joining the BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe online tomorrow #bfwe2026 - especially as I'll be doing some BIBFRAME training in October with @libjuiceacademy.bsky.social #libraries #metadata #LinkedData

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