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Metadata For Graphic Novels And Comic Books: Comic Book Markup Language And Advanced Comic Book Format, Vonda E. Wright

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper examines the resources available to institutions and catalogers in creating records for digital comics and graphic novels by examining the widest used formats, Comic Book Markup Language and Advanced Comic Book Format, and a review of the literature. Also included is a crosswalk and sample records.

Foxes Propose New Guidelines For Henhouse Design: Comments On Niso’S Proposed Open Access Metadata Standards, Paul Royster

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

This commentary is in response to: NISO RP-22-201x, Open Access Metadata and Indicators (draft for comment), which is available at: http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=12047

NISO is the National Information Standards Organization, a non-profit industry organization whose mission statement reads: “NISO fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research and learning.” Their recently-issued proposed guidelines for new metadata fields to be attached to scholarly works purport to address and clarify issues of access and re-licensing surrounding the electronic distribution of journal articles. Briefly, they …