The National
Library of Australia, the Library of Congress, The British Library, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek have agreed to participate in a joint
alliance together with the Biblioteca Nacional de
Portugal, IFLA and CDNL to assure on going coordination,
communication and support for key activities in the areas of bibliographic and
resource control for all types of resources and related format and protocol
standards. This new alliance is known as "IFLA-CDNL
Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS)."
The
focus of the alliance is strategic and offers a practical way to improve
international coordination and to steer developments in these key areas. The
alliance aims to maintain, promote, and harmonize existing standards and
concepts related to bibliographic and resource control, to develop strategies
for bibliographic and resource control, and to advance understanding of issues
related to long-term archiving of electronic resources, including the promotion
of new and recommended conventions for such archiving. More specifically, the
objectives of this new alliance are
1)
To coordinate activities aimed at the development of standards and
practices for bibliographic and resource control, including metadata, persistent
identifiers, and interoperability standards
2)
To support the international exchange of bibliographic resources by
supporting, promoting, developing, and testing the maintenance of metadata and
format standards
3)
To ensure the
promotion of new conventions
4)
To act as a clearinghouse for information on all IFLA endeavours in
these fields
5)
To organize and participate in seminars and workshops
6) To enhance communication within
the community.
Source: IFLANET
Source: IFLANET
In 2003 the UBCIM core activity was closed and the
coordination of bibliographic standardization was moved to the IFLA - CDNL
Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS), which was later changed to the
IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Digital Strategies (ICADS). In 2011 it was decided to
discontinue ICADS. During the 2011 WLIC conference the idea arose of
revitalizing UBC and the Bibliography Section took on this task.
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