W3C incubator group on LLD – Draft Report for comment

I appreciate that the focus of this report is based on "library-held" datasets, however I don’t think the opportunities for journal articles are addressed. Whilst it is unlikely that most academic libraries will be cataloguing each journal article within their own catalogue – especially when there is Web of Science or SCOPUS available – end-users don’t necessarily see the distinction – or perhaps shouldn’t have to see the distinction between material types, or library’s decisions on ownership vs. access within their collection which will be reflected in their catalogue but not in the service provided. Sorry if this isn't clear, but the service provided by a particular (academic) library is provided through a portfolio of electronic resource discovery tools, of which only one, the library catalogue, is the library responsible for creating the content, limiting linked data potential to "library-held" information may only be a small part of the information landscape for a particular user and isn't building bridges to the work going on in the area of linking research data & publications (citing data etc)

While I agree that cataloguing standards were designed to exchange data between libraries; I'm not sure that I would agree that bib. exchange with publishers is new and not accepted. While libraries may not use individual publishers - it is common practice to get bib records from your book supplier. This also doesn't address journals - our institutional repository uses Cross-Ref to look up the DOIs of journal articles to enahance the information recorded about the publication in the IR.