Potential impact of ISBD for Manifestation on the future of UNIMARC
The paper discusses challenges in the development of UNIMARC as an encoding standard for metadata content that conforms to the stipulations of ISBD for Manifestation, an implementation of the IFLA Library Reference Model. UNIMARC already encodes metadata controlled by ISBD: International Standard Bibliographic Description, the precursor of ISBD for Manifestation. Issues discussed include the interaction between metadata standards in the ecosystem maintained by IFLA, the impact of a focus on a single entity from an entity-relationship conceptual model for a multiple-entity metadata ecosystem, and the application of the Semantic Web technologies for which the model is optimized.
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- Year: 2025
- Volume (number): 30 (1-2)
- Published: 26. 8. 2025
- Article number: 2530006
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