Metadata for Graphic Novels and Comic Books: Comic Book Markup Language and Advanced Comic Book Format
2014; University of Idaho Library; Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1522-0222
Autores Tópico(s)Library Collection Development and Digital Resources
ResumoGraphic novels and comics can be difficult to catalog due to the graphic and textual nature of the medium. The most popular and used formats for comics and graphic novels would not met the standard for most institutions, but since there are a number of digital files already available in the Comic book RAR (CBR) and Comic Book Zip(CBZ) reader file format with little to no metadata attached those files should be cataloged using either a known xml or other schema and then have a crosswalk applied to them to adapt them to the more controlled, and more complex, Comic Book Markup Language (CBML) that should be used by information institutions. CBML is based in Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), while the standard for comic books as it can be added to XML such as Dublin Core, and is extremely involved and far more complicated than the average institution will need. The project purposed is a set of records created using specific standard for metadata cataloging of comics and graphic novels, CBR and CBZ reader files, in Dublin Core (DC) with a detailed crosswalk to the more Advanced Comic Book Format with the CBML in the appropriate sections.Literature and overviewIn recent years comic books and graphic novels have gained in popularity within libraries and in the culture as a whole. Collections of comics and graphic novels are being cataloged by both private collectors and libraries. The creation of digital content in this format and the preservation(Whittaker, B. 2006) of physical items have led to the creation of several schemas for adding appropriate metadata to these items.The information in this literature review will be presented thematically, by addressing the general topic of the metadata schemas for graphic novels and comic books, the needs of those using the different schemas for the graphic novels and comic books, and the specific schemas for this format with the primary focus on the Comic Book Markup Language as created by John A. Walsh (2012). The themes of comic book and graphic novel metadata issues and benefits will also be explored. The following 10 resources are reviewed to give the best overall view of this topic and the issues surrounding it. The following paper includes a variety of different types of resources including organizational websites, journal articles, research papers, and user created content.OverviewThe comic and graphic novel formats were early adapters to the digital model with many titles being available only online. (Hoover, S. 2011) Private collectors and specialty collections by information centers have digitalized their physical items to preserve and share them. This has led the user created metadata schemas to better catalog this format in private collections. These user created schemas have their limitations and issues that make them problematic to control at the large scale for information institutions. However the user created application has the benefit of being extremely easy to use and relatively easy to share the information created with others. These user created formats are based on xml and Dublin core schemas. The scholarly version of the user created model is based in Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and is a more controlled, and therefore less basic user friendly, format that is more suited to information institutions use. Comics are generally short 32 pages or less and serial, but graphic novels are the longer titles that can either be standalone or serial. (Adamich, T, 2011)Types of schemas for comic books and graphic novelsWhile both Dublin core and a basic XML could be applied to comic books and graphic novels, neither are designed to deal with both images and text within the same item. Here are the schemas designed to provide metadata for the format.Comic Book Reader (.CB7, .CBA, .CBR, .CBT, AND .CBZ)These all refer to the personal file manager that are created by users with this varying file type. The two most popular are CBR and CBZ. …
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