Metadata

BIBLINK: Linking Publishers and National Bibliographic Services

Introduction

Project BIBLINK was funded by DG XIII/E-4 under the Telematics Application Programme of the European Union Fourth Framework Programme. It aimed to establish an electronic link between national bibliographic agencies and publishers of electronic material, in order to establish authoritative bibliographic information that would benefit both sectors.

The project leaders of BIBLINK are the British Library and partners include the national libraries of France, The Netherlands, Norway and Spain, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona) and UKOLN.

More information about Project BIBLINK is available from the project Web pages at:
<URL:http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/>

The BIBLINK page on the I*M Europe Telematics for Libraries Web site can be found at:
<URL:http://web.archive.org/web/19991117201313/http://www2.echo.lu/libraries/en/projects/biblink.html>

Publications describing BIBLINK:

• Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell, National bibliographic records in the digital information environment: metadata, links and standards. Journal of Documentation, 55, (1), January 1999, 16-32.
• Trudi Noordermeer, A bibliographic link between publishers and national bibliographic agencies concerning electronic publications: project BIBLINK. International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control, 28 (1), January/March 1999, 26-29.
• Trudi Noordermeer, A bibliographic link between publishers of electronic resources and national bibliographic agencies: project BIBLINK. Exploit Interactive issue 4, January 2000.
  http://www.exploit-lib.org/issu e4/biblink/
• Robina Clayphan, The BIBLINK project: linking publishers and national bibliographic agencies. Learned Publishing, 13 (2), April 2000, 111-117.
• Manjula Patel and Robina Clayphan, Project BIBLINK: Linking Publishers and National Bibliographic Agencies. Proceedings Internet Librarian 2000, March 2000 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/publications/biblink/proj-biblink.html

Deliverables

BIBLINK is divided up into different Work Packages (WPs). The first phase of the project (WP 1-7) consisted primarily of research into a variety of background issues. The second phase (WP 8-14), dealt with the production of a demonstrator. UKOLN was involved in the production of the following report deliverables during the first phase of the project:

• Rachel Heery, with contributions from Robina Clayphan, Michael Day, Lorcan Dempsey and David Martin, WP1: Metadata Formats, February 1997.
  <URL:http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/wp1/>
• Hilde Høgås, Titia van der Werf and Andy Powell, WP2: Identification, May 1997.
  <URL:http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/wp2/>
• Rachel Heery, ed., with contributions from Robina Clayphan, Michael Day, Brian Holt and Neil Wilson, WP4: Format Conversion Feasibility, September 1997.
  <URL:http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/wp4/>
• Clare Sutton and Robina Clayphan, with contributions from David Martin and Andy Powell, WP5: Transmission of Data, March 1997.
  <URL:http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/wp5/>

During the second phase of the project, the UKOLN metadata group contributed to a functional specification for the BIBLINK demonstrator D8.2 - Functional Specification - PDF version

• BIBLINK Core field semantics
• BIBLINK.Checksum Algorithm
• Example RDF View
• Notes on the BIBLINK Workspace
• Usage scenarios

As part of the Testing and Verification stage, a mapping from BIBLINK Core (BC) to UNIMARC was also developed.

The following tools were developed as part of the Demonstrator phase of the project:

• BIBLINK.Checksum tool [no longer available]
• BIBLINK metadata creator

UKOLN staff who worked on BIBLINK

Michael Day

Research Officer

m.day@ukoln.ac.uk

Rachel Heery

Metadata Projects Co-ordinator

r.m.heery@ukoln.ac.uk

Manjula Patel

Technical Development and Research

m.patel@ukoln.ac.uk

Andy Powell

Technical Development and Research

a.powell@ukoln.ac.uk