To the BIBFRAME mailing list
The National Library of New Zealand joins others in welcoming the Bibliographic Framework Transition Intitiative launched by the Library of Congress.
We also welcome the involvement of national and international standards bodies such as NISO, ISO, WC3, etc, who we feel will bring expertise and valuable additional perspectives to our development of a new data format for libraries.
Finally, we have been following the email discussion with interest, and strongly support the position that a new format standard would need to be openly available and managed in a way which facilitates modification and further development
by its user community.
Regards,
Kim Gutchlag
Kim Gutchlag
Manager, Collection Description
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