The Future of Bibliographic Control Meeting

Economics and Organization of Bibliographic Data Background Paper for the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control sets the stage for the third meeting.

The purpose of the third public meeting is to better understand the economic and organizational needs and challenges facing stakeholders currently, in the near future, and in the more distant future in regard to creating, maintaining, sharing, and supporting the metadata, structures, and standards of bibliographic control. In this context, the term “economic” refers to the human, technological, and monetary costs of bibliographic control, from both the narrow micro- and broad macro-economic perspectives.