CALL FOR PAPERS

ISBD: Content Bibliographic Standard

A special issue of Cataloging and Classification Quarterly will be devoted
to the evaluation and adoption of ISBD: International Standard
Bibliographic Description, consolidated edition, published in 2011.

Submissions for this special issue should describe critical and even
controversial argumentative opinions related to the ISBD as a content
bibliographic standard. Some possible topics include:

- ISBD Consolidated edition: development, changes introduced, open issues
- ISBD and its relevance to the Universal Bibliographic Control
- ISBD and FRBR, or consolidated FR family of models
- ISBD and UNIMARC bibliographic format
- ISBD: status and issues of its translations
- ISBD and national cataloguing rules
- Implementation and use for special types of resources
- ISBD and metadata schemes and formats: interoperability and sustainability
- ISBD and its relevance to publishing sector: ISBD and RDA/ONIX Framework
- Publishing ISBD in RDF
- ISBD and its impact on publishing bibliographic metadata as linked open
data
- ISBD and user services
- Critical analysis of the survey on the use of the ISBD
- Positioning of the ISBD in future developments of library information
infrastructure (Is there a future for the ISBD?)


Proposals of no more than 300 words should be sent by July 15, 2013 to the
guest editors, Mirna Willer (Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.), Lynne Howarth
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Decisions will be communicated no later than August 15, 2013. Manuscripts
are due by February 1, 2014. Each manuscript should be in the range of
5,000-8,000 words. Instructions for authors can be found at
http://catalogingandclassificationquarterly.com/instructions.html

Acceptance of a proposal does not guarantee publication. All manuscript
submissions will be subject to peer review. Publication is scheduled for
2014.

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly is respected as an international
forum for discussion in all aspects of bibliographic organization. It
presents a balance between theoretical and applied articles in the field
of cataloging and classification, and considers the full spectrum of
creation, content, management, and use and usability of both bibliographic
records and catalogs. This includes the principles, functions, and
techniques of descriptive cataloging; the wide range of methods of subject
analysis and classification; provision of access for all formats of
materials; and policies, planning, and issues connected to the effective
use of bibliographic data in modern society.

Greeetings,

Mirna Willer