IFLA Core Activity:
IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS)
ICABS
The National Library of Australia, the Library of Congress, The British Library, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek have agreed to participate in a joint alliance together with the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, IFLA and CDNL to assure ongoing coordination, communication and support for key activities in the areas of bibliographic and resource control for all types of resources and related format and protocol standards. This new alliance is known as "IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS)."
The focus of the alliance is strategic and offers a practical way to improve international coordination and to steer developments in these key areas. The alliance aims to maintain, promote, and harmonize existing standards and concepts related to bibliographic and resource control, to develop strategies for bibliographic and resource control, and to advance understanding of issues related to long-term archiving of electronic resources, including the promotion of new and recommended conventions for such archiving. More specifically, the objectives of this new alliance are
1) To coordinate
activities aimed at the development of standards and practices for bibliographic and resource control, including metadata, persistent identifiers, and interoperability standards
2) To support
the international exchange of bibliographic resources by supporting, promoting, developing, and testing the maintenance of metadata and format standards
3) To ensure
the promotion of new conventions
4) To act
as a clearinghouse for information on all IFLA endeavours in these fields
5) To organize and participate in
seminars and workshops
6) To enhance
communication within the community.
See also: Background
Goals and Actions
These objectives will be realized through the "Goals and Actions" the alliance partners agreed upon and specified in the Strategic plan. The goals are primarily linked to IFLA professional priority "Promoting standards, guidelines and best practices," but some may also be linked to "Promoting resource sharing," "Providing unrestricted access to information," "Representing libraries in the technological marketplace," and "Developing library professionals."
Each of the partners in this alliance has agreed to be the lead support agency for one or more of the actions, as shown below as "responsible partner."
Strategic Plan
2005-2006 | 2004-2005
ICABS Coordination
ICABS will coordinate and communicate their work and activities to enhance cooperation and to avoid overlapping or duplicating work between the alliance partners and:
- IFLA Headquarters, Governing Board, Professional Committee, Divisions, & Sections
- CDNL and the regional groups of CDNL
- UNESCO and other funding bodies
- ISO, ICA, and other national and international standard making bodies in the area of bibliographic control
One member of each of the participating libraries (plus two members nominated by IFLA) will constitute an ICABS Board, chaired by one of the participating institutions on a rotating basis. Die Deutsche Bibliothek has agreed to chair the board for the first 3-year-term. The institution that chairs the board will provide a secretary for the group. The secretary will handle various arrangements and communications, for example, creating and maintaining a Web page for the programme and maintaining a Web view that promotes the results of the programme with a link to and from IFLANET.
The ICABS Board will review and evaluate the actions of this alliance.
Conferences
- Call for Papers
Theme: Session 1: Digital objects on physical carriers, Session 2: Preservation infrastructures
World Library and Information Congress: August 2008, Québec, Canada
International Conference UNIMARC & Friends: charting the new landscape of library standards
Lisbon, Portugal, 20-21 March 2006
Archiving web resources: international conference
National Library of Australia, Canberra 9 - 11 November 2004
The conference forms part of the National Library of Australia's contribution to the work program of the IFLA CDNL Alliance Bibliographic Standards (ICABS).
Publications
Two ICABS publications now online!
In 2004-2005, The
National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) conducted for ICABS a survey on the use and development of standards in digital archiving within the international library world. The survey resulted in the report:
"Networking for digital preservation: Current Practice in 15 National Libraries".
PDF version available at:
http://www.ifla.org/VI/7/pub/IFLAPublication-No119.pdf
In the same period the National Library of Australia also carried out a survey for ICABS on digital preservation. This survey focused on the availability of suitable guidance documents for preserving digital materials:
"Report to ICABS on guidance for digital preservation: Report on a survey of Sources".
PDF version available at:
http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/2005/documents/webb1.pdf
Activity Reports
Contact Address
For further information, please contact:
Secretary
Ms. Mandy Stewart
Resource Discovery Research and Projects Manager
British Library
Boston Spa, Wetherby
WEST YORKSHIRE LS23 7BQ
United Kingdom
Tel.: +(44)(1937)546194
Fax: +(44)(1937)546586
Email: mandy.stewart@bl.uk
ICABS Advisory Board
Chair
Ms. Caroline Brazier
Head, Resource Discovery
British Library
Boston Spa, Wetherby
WEST YORKSHIRE LS23 7BQ
United Kingdom
Tel. +(44)(1937)546646
Fax +(44)(1937)546979
Email: caroline.brazier@bl.uk
Members
Ms. Maria Inês Cordeiro
Biblioteca Nacional
Campo Grande, 83
1749-081 LISBON
Portugal
Tel. +(351)217982022
Fax +(351)217982140
E-mail: icordeiro@bn.pt
Dr. Wim van Drimmelen
Director
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5
P.O. Box 90407
2509 LK
2595 BE The Hague
The Netherlands
Tel. +(31)(70)3140497
Fax: +(31)(70)3140450
E-mail: wim.vandrimmelen@kb.nl
Ms. Pam Gatenby
Section: Collections Management
National Library of Australia
Parkes ACT 2600
Australia
Tel.+(61)(2)62621672
E-mail: pgatenby@nla.gov.au
Ms. Renate Gömpel
Head of Acquisition, Cataloguing and Standardisation Department
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Adickesallee 1
D-60322 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Telefon: +49-69-1525-1300
Telefax: +49-69-1525-1010
E-mail: r.goempel@d-nb.de
Mr. Patrice Landry
Chief of Classification and Indexing
Swiss National Library
Hallwylstrasse 15
3003 BERN
Switzerland
Tel. +(41)(31)3240625
Fax +(41)(31)3228463
E-mail: patrice.landry@nb.admin.ch
Ms. Sally H. McCallum
Chief, Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540
USA
Tel. +(1)(202)707 5119
Fax +(1)(202)707 0115
E-mail: smcc@loc.gov
