We are pleased to announce that LODE-BD Recommendations 2.0 have been published in HTML. You can now easily browse the recommendations and explore the decision trees and proposed metadata terms and values from the LODE-BD homepage.

For those familiar with LODE-BD, the version 2.0 includes the following changes:

• Metadata terms recommended are not limited to subject-specific domains as agricultural-related namespaces and vocabularies are removed from the 2.0 version. LODE-BD are now appropriate for use by any data providers and repositories.
• A road-map has been added to guide the navigation of LODE-BD sections.
• A crosswalk which maps the metadata terms used in the LODE-BD 2.0 with schema.org properties has been provided as Appendix 4.

Are you interested to know more about LODE-BD? Do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] for more information on how to select appropriate encoding strategies for producing Linked Open Data (LOD)-enabled bibliographic data.