Thought you might
be interested in a 2-day roundtable I attended in June on the
relationship between standards and innovation sponsored by the LOC, ISO,
ANSI, and other standards development bodies. A glance at the program will give you an idea of the kinds of questions being asked by standards development bodies and researchers at universities across the US and Canada: http://www.iso.org/sites/WSCRoundtable2013/programme.html
Roberta Shaffer of the
LOC was one of the presenters at the roundtable described their work on a new standard
under development to transition from MARC 21. This site contains updated information about the Bibliographic Framework Initiative: http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/
The LOC has contracted with the firm Zepheira on the Bibframe project. The president of the firm, Eric Miller, lead the Semantic Web initiative for the World Wide Web Consortium during his tenure with W3C.
There are a number of documents and presentations available at the Bibframe site. But the one that I think most underscores the convergence of standards and practices is Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data: Linked Data Model and Supporting Services
