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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The platform hosting our OA Journal, Catalogue & Index, is currently down due to technical reasons; if you want to access a specific article or issue you can email your request to: catalogueandindex@gmail.com Anything up to & including issue 207 can be accessed at: www.cilip.org.uk/news-publica...

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Catalogue & Index

Catalogue & Index is the open access journal for the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (ISSN: 0008-7629) It was established in 1966 and is issued quarterly. It examines the organisation of knowledge ...

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

... the same structured information can support discovery, distribution, archiving & preservation, quality-assurance reporting & analytics, rather than needing to be repeatedly recreated in different closed-off silos." -- @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

"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 · 30/09/2026

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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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Leeds have joined the SCONUL UK Open Bibliographic Metadata Group and are working with other institutions on a UK BlueCore instance that will move UK libraries forward to a shared open metadata ecosystem & infrastructure with richer data, better connections, & less duplication of effort #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

In this environment the role of the Metadata Librarian shift from cataloguing individual items in relative isolation or silos, to managing metadata at scale - contributing to a shared open dataset that builds a knowledge graph #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Authority Control is crucial here - reconciling Names and Name Entities is fundamental to make accurate connections that build the Knowledge Graph #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Leeds want to make connections between their collections described in different systems across cultural heritage, art, archival, & bibliographic resources - they are using the Linked Art Data Model linked.art/model/intro/ #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

In 2022 Leeds joined the UK NACO funnel to contribute to LC Name Authorities - this work has become focussed on Names that require disambiguation Wikidata acts as a complimentary source for Name Entities connecting to LC Name Authorities, VIAF & ISNI via embedded Identifiers (PIDs) #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Sinopia BIBFRAME Editor can be used to more clearly express the relationships between 'Bound-withs' - moving from a flat MARC record to a more three-dimensional model - BUT still waiting for Alma to support BIBFRAME Items - on the roadmap for 2027! #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Custodial history and other copy-specific information can be more clearly described when using the LD4Libraries RMAG templates at Item Level #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

BIBFRAME enables relationships to be more clearly stated, and copy-specific information can be recorded at the Item Level #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

MARC is not always the ideal format for cataloguing rare print collections, because it is difficult to fully express the relationships between materials and collections, persons, places and other entities. Copy-specific data such as custodial history can become hidden. #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Now Alison Hazelaaar and Kim Taylor form @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social speak about the @exlibrisclvt.bsky.social Linked Open Data Working Group to explore the potential of #BIBFRAME & using #WIKIDATA to complement NACO. #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

This will only work if a critical mass of Libraries get behind it & work together to enhance Linked Data Entities into a connected ecosystem - Linked Data will eventually replace MARC (via BIBFRAME) but collaboration & investment is essential for libraries to move forward coherently #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

WorldCat Entities from @oclc.org envisages detailed Entity Info Cards in Discovery - including biographical data, images and broader web resources, so users can connect library collections to other resources elsewhere via the Knowledge Graph #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Connecting Entities together creates a Knowledge Graph enabling users to see relationships that they wouldn't otherwise be aware of - and that cannot be adequately expressed in traditionally library catalogues (ie MARC environment) #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Standardising the Entity Record for a Person - covering Key Information, Significant Dates and various Characteristics, plus Identifiers such as @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social & Related Entities: Person, Places, Works, Organizations #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

UoS chose to work on the Pareks Collection of Holocaust Memoirs - this was difficult material with sensitive subject matter and a need to be respectful of the Persons described in the collections. What is the correct Entity Type for places associated with the holocaust? #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

The idea was to enrich metadata with Person Entity URIs & to ensure that the Entities themselves in Meridian were enriched and as full and detailed as possible - challenges involved resourcing the enrichment of Meridian Entities & ensuring data quality & consistency #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Sarah Glaccum at Uni of Southampton Library details a project to explore Linked Data with @oclc.org Meridian - they were granted access to Meridian for a month - data from WMS was exported into a spreadsheet which was added to by API as well as manually #RLUKDSF

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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.org · 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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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

Libraries are not neutral. Language is not neutral.

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

Don't get me started on metadata provenance 😆

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

FWIW I think the info cards are annoying too, and I'm a Metadata Librarian 😆

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

But this UX feedback is definitely something libraries should take on board. E.g. present a 'simple view' of the record with an option to 'view more' so it's less overwhelming to the user.

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

There's a sense of "the more data the better" in some library metadata because it's trying to serve the needs of a plethora of users, from undergrads to expert researchers, inc those who dont know what theyre looking for so need to see connections between things beyon keyword searching!

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

I completely agree - the connections or links between entities asserted by the metadata can be subjective or even misleading, particularly for Subject Headings. Language & terminology matter. We're not always in agreement with the LC authority file!

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

As metadata moves between systems (& formats), data can be lost. Libraries lobby vendors for improvements, but, yes, often we have to fix errors ourselves! It can feel a bit sisyphean!

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

They ingest 'provider data' from publishers & content aggregators. The quality & accuracy of their metadata is contingent on the quality of the source data + their enrichment processes.

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

The vendor of Primo (Clarivate) is a massive multinational data analytics company. Library systems (like Alma & Primo) are just part of what they do.

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy to help - that was the intention 🙂 We all use web-based searching tools without knowing what's going on 'under the hood' + there are hundreds of years' of library cataloguing/metadata practice that can affect search & discovery, especially as the bibliographic universe keeps getting bigger!

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

The "Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821" example is one to take up with the Library of Congress - that is the 'authorised form' of the name in the LC Name Authority File (so libraries basically have to use it) id.loc.gov/authorities/...

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

Of course this functions better for well-known persons with properly 'fleshed out' Name Authority Records (or Wikidata) and it is contingent on the "link" to that correct Person Entity being present in the metadata for the publication. - So errors can occur without good name disambiguation processes

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

The "Person Info cards" are a feature of the discovery layer Primo VE - they use Linked Data to link to 'related information' regarding a person (such as an author or historical figure). The library can turn it off in their configuration settings.

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

I think the wrong Name Authority Heading has been used - very fixable if you report it to the library's metadata or cataloguing dept - also probably an error not introduced by the library but by "vendor-supplied" metadata produced using an automated process that has not undergone name disambiguation

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

This is a step towards creating a Knowledge Graph that connects entities (Works, Persons, Places, Topics) in a 3-dimensional manner on the web to support discovery beyond "known title" searching. A search for 'Fanny Price' will find 'Mansfield Park,' 'Jane Austen' and other related entities.

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

Looks like the Library of Congress Name Authority "Price, Fanny (Fictitious character)" has been added as a Subject Heading. id.loc.gov/authorities/... In Primo, there are 'Linked Data' features such as 'info cards' for Name Authorities; some connect with Wikidata www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3066481

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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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