Committees: JISC Integrated Information Environment committee
Programmes: PALS Metadata and Interoperability programme (phase 1), PALS Metadata and Interoperability programme (phase 2)
Applying appropriate metadata is essential if publishers’ content is to be identified and retrieved appropriately. It is equally crucial to other activities such as long-term preservation. Therefore, it is vital that publishers are able and willing to apply appropriate metadata to their electronic content.
In some areas – linking (DOI/CrossRef), communication with downstream resellers (ONIX) – problems of applying metadata have been, or are beginning to be, overcome. It is extremely important to find a way of enabling similar progress in the field of academic and professional publications, and across publishers of all sizes and types.
The PALS Metadata and Interoperability Working Group was set up in November 2002 to analyse the barriers to publishers' and libraries' use of metdata and identify possible solutions. Membership is drawn from both the publishing and the library communities.
Terms of reference
- Awareness-raising: identify the most important established and emerging metadata sets and schemata for the use of publishers who publish for the UK HE market
- Advocacy: recommend the most appropriate metadata sets for implementation
- Support: identify appropriate tagging tools or metadata cross-walks
- Collaboration: work with JISC on calls for proposals for funding in this area; review proposals; help to select and steer them to a successful conclusion
See a list of members