Re: OECD Releases White Paper on Data Discoverability Standards

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I don't understand the statement on page 3: "However, dig a 
little deeper and it's easy to see there are no rules about how 
to publish, present, cite or otherwise catalogue datasets."  I'm 
aware of the following existing rules for citing or cataloguing 
data sets.  I note that AACR2 and ISBD are international 
standards, RDA is a draft which will soon be proposed as a 
successor to AACR2, and APA is widely used by scholars in many of 
the social sciences, not just psychology.  In what respect do 
these rules not constitute "rules about how to . . . cite or 
otherwise catalogue datasets"?

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (2d ed., 2002 rev. & Supp. 
2005), http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2264 (see the 
rules for electronic resources);

International Standard Bibliographic Description (Prelim. consol. 
ed. 2007), 
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/ISBD_consolidated_2007.pdf (see 
the rules throughout for cataloguing electronic resources);

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 281, 
examples 94 & 95 (5th ed. 2001); see also rule 4.15 for citing 
URL and retrieval date, at 231;

Resource Description and Access app. M, at 32 (draft Oct. 31, 
2008), http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2264 .

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura Cox" <laura.cox@frontlinegms.com>
To: "Liblicense-L" <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:29:47 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: OECD Releases White Paper on Data Discoverability Standards

Paris, 20th April 2009, OECD has released a white paper, We Need
Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables, which examines
the problems with current data discoverability and citations and
the remedy in creating industry standards for bibliographic
dataset metadata and 
linking:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/603233448430.