The International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) is the only open and freely available bibliographic standard with the goal of ensuring access to information by making bibliographic data available, interoperable and shareable, across all countries and languages in the world. The Review Group… Read More
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All updates to UNIMARC/Bibliographic, 3rd ed., approved in the period of 2012-2017 are now available online (in PDF format). See more. Updates to UNIMARC/Authorities coming soon!… Read More
Efficient collaboration between libraries and other data providers relies upon standardisation. One key issue in this context is bibliographic control (also known as information organization or bibliographic organization). Universal Bibliographic Control is grounded on sharing the effort of resource description, eliminating redundancy by… Read More
For the Classification & Indexing Section's Open Session we invite presentations showing new, unique, or innovative ways of providing subject access to users from all types of libraries – approaches or applications that go beyond the traditional or the ordinary, being exemplars of “infinite possibilities”. Read More
Project goals and objectives The ISBD consolidated edition of 2011 has positioned this IFLA standard as a core standard for universal bibliographic control, while its representation in the W3C RDF standard (work done by the ISBD/XML Study Group) enables its use within the… Read More
*** Superseded contents *** *** Go to ISBD Linked Data Study Group for updated information *** Goals and objectives IFLA Cataloguing Section's ISBD Review Group approved the recommendations from its Material Designation Study Group to develop an… Read More