As semantic web and linked data became hot topics, new standards in metadata, including bibliographic vocabularies and ontologies, were published in RDF or OWL. IFLA’s ISBD Vocabularies and FRBR Vocabularies, RDA Registry, Europeana Data Model (EMD) Vocabulary, OCLC’s BiblioGraph (bibliographic extension of Schema.org), and Library of Congress’s BIBFRAME are emerging in recent years. There is discrepancy in amount of classes and properties between these RDF vocabularies. The tendency in the making of RDF vocabularies is coordinating among agencies, minimizing number of namespaces, and introducing “event” class into the vocabularies.

With the development of hypertext and network technology, hyper-reading has exceeded theoretical research and experimental stage, and become the mainstream form of reading at present. Due to the openness of the hypertext works structure, it leads to the diversity of reading, and profoundly affects the ecological environment of publishing and reading. Not only the narrative mode of writing and reading but also publishing and editing forms have changed. Reading revolution is taking place. So the library services will face more difficulties, and need to explore more reading service models and digital hypertext technology.

The study of reading object is the research about reading activities from the perspective of culture. This paper extends the concept of the archaeology of knowledge, and uses the images of the archaeology of knowledge for the comparative study of reading culture.

This paper describes the bibliographic data format development from MARC to BIBFRAME, elaborates the bibliographic data model BIBFRAME based on linked data, from the perspectives of entities, attributes, relationships and vocabulary. It analyzes the differences and similarities between the future content cataloging rule RDA and BIBFRAME. This paper also researches the mapping between MARC21 and BIBFRAME, identifies the problems existing in mapping. Finally, it presents the BIBFRAME testing and supportive tools.

The paper studies scientometrics visualization by statistically analyzing 164 papers from the domestic core journals of non-Library-and-Information-Science community in the last decade (2004-2013) from four aspects, namely, data selecting, data processing, data presentation, and writing style. The study points out problems of scientometrics visualization, including redundancy of research, limited diversity of indicators and tools of scientometrics visualization, and a certain gap between non-Library-and-Information- Science community and LIS.

Public domain encourages authors to write more books, and assists more people to utilize predecessors’ intelligence, thus promotes the development of knowledge. This paper discusses identifying whether Chinese books should be categorized public domain, and the methods of successful identification.

Users in a library can be categorized into three groups, digital pioneers, digital followers and traditional users. We concluded that personalized and innovative services should be provided according to the users’ digital ability. For digital pioneers, we could provide a fashionable space displaying new technologies. For digital followers, we should try improving their user experience and offer more lifeoriented information. For traditional users, inclusive design to reduce their difficulty in using technology use should be considered the focus of efforts. Providing services according to attributes of different reader groups could maximize the equality among people with different technology skills and literary levels to acquire knowledge.

In order to study the phenomenon of obtaining a large number of original documents through regional libraries’ collaborative digital reference services, the paper takes the “Joint Online Consultation of Hunan Province” as anexample. It analyzes the possible motives for readers to obtain a large number of original documents in short time through reference service. It points out the fact that it might lead to the infringement of intellectual property rights, if reference librarians unconditionally provide a large amount of literature. It then proposes countermeasures from three aspects. First, we should specify the amount and the scope of “fair use” by adopting quantitative and qualitative methods, while striving for more “library exceptions” in laws. Secondly, we should guide and nurture the readers’ consciousness of copyright protection by means of real-name registration, and copyright statements. Finally, we should utilize technologies to protect copyright.

In the information age, optimizing literature content based on users’ needs and processing and developing literature have become the focus of future work in library cataloging, which traditionally only involves the description of external literature features. Local literature, with strong regional and distinct characteristics, should be revealed comprehensively and multi-dimensionally, such as attaching importance to notes, indexing keywords deeply, unifying classification and other basic access points so as to improve the quality of literature cataloging as well as promoting the circulation and utilization of local literature.

Title information note is an important indicator to measure the quality of cataloging. To effectively play its role in helping readers identify documents, we should strive to make it accurate (including selection of note contents and fields), carefully-made (readers can see as the standard) and unique (no repeated instructions).

With a history of over 100 years , Central China Normal University (CCNU) is strong in liberal arts, but a little weak in science, and short of technology and engineering. Keeping the traditional advantage in liberal arts, optimizing existing science subjects, and developing technology and engineering, CCNU plans to build itself into a comprehensive research university featuring education for teachers. The library resource thus won’t be suitable for the future. According to the different characteristics and levels of disciplines, therefore, reallocating library resource will be conducive to discipline development.

Linked data model is very important in the implementation of linked bibliographic data projects. There are different linked data models adopted in the library circle. This article makes comparative analysis and study on 5 typical linked data projects from 4 perspectives: content description rules, ontology model and vocabularies, data model and format, and data consumption.

Using experts’ names, professional titles, organizations, published papers, and journals as data sources, which are stored in non-relational databases OpenLinkVirtuoso in RDF format, this research builds an expert database by integrating Pubmed literature data with DOI number. An extensible ontology is constructed on the basis of these open ontology vocabulary (DC, FOAF, BIBO etc.).

As two standards of W3C’s RDB2RDF Working Group, DM and R2RML have been implemented by many RDB2RDF tools, in the latest version of Oracle, which is one of the most famous RDB providers, and by Music Brainz Linked Data project and Open Semantic Cloud for Brussels Project. This paper analyzes the RDB2RDF tools, the RDB products and the projects implemented with the two standards.

The article introduces the concept and characteristics of the makerspaces, and the significance for the libraries to construct the makerspaces, considering the digital age which the libraries are in, the necessity of transformation and the libraries’ service theory. After reviewing the successful cases of makerspaces in foreign libraries, it summarizes the influential factors, namely, resources and equipments (funds, space, facilities and tools), service team, service design, external environment and cooperation mechanism. Finally, the article proposes specific measures to build makerspace in libraries at home.

Jiang Jishi, whose courtesy name was Xipu, is a noted bibliophile between Kangxi and Yongzheng periods of the Qing Dynasty. He and Jiang Gongfei, were not the same person. He loved to collect the masterpieces of the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, which were mostly manuscripts. Researching his life and collections will greatly help us to revise the false records of the predecessors.

For the first time, the paper studies the historical evidences of the period when Mr. Ma Zongrong studied at Imperial University of Tokyo, and his major there. It introduces his interest in and books on library education during his early days in Japan, describes his activities of saving Chinese cultural heritage with the help of the Science and Art Society of China by reproducing the old Chinese books kept in the Japanese libraries, and reveals him as a patriotic library scientist.