Vocabulary Mapping Framework

[Norman Paskin]

List members may be interested to know of the Vocabulary Mapping Framework.
The press release is available at
<http://www.doi.org/news/VMF_project_announcement_090615.pdf>.

Summary: A new initiative, the Vocabulary Mapping Framework (VMF), has been
announced by a consortium of partners. This will create an extensive and
authoritative mapping of vocabularies from nine major content metadata
standards, creating a downloadable tool to support interoperability across
communities. The mapping will also be extensible to other standards. The
work builds on the principles of interoperability established in the indecs
Content Model, and is an expansion of the existing RDA/ONIX Framework into a
comprehensive vocabulary of resource relators and categories, which will be
a superset of those used in major standards from the publisher/producer,
education and bibliographic/heritage communities.
The International DOI Foundation, which fully endorses this work, will
provide a web hosting facility for the Framework as part of its commitment
to promoting the wider use of interoperable metadata, and will use the
vocabulary mapping wherever possible to support the association of metadata
with DOI names.

The IDF is organising an event in conjunction with the iPres2009 Digital
Preservation meeting (San Francisco, October) which will consider this and
wider issues:
<http://www.doi.org/doi_presentations/members_meeting_2009/index.html>.

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