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Gary Pattillo is reference librarian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, e-mail: pattillo@email.
unc.edu

G a r y  P a t t i l l o

Call for participation: A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age
“The Library of Congress is committed to developing, in collaboration with 
librarians, standards experts, and technologists a new bibliographic framework 
that will serve the associated communities well into the future.” A new biblio-
graphic format would “accommodate and distinguish expert-, automated-, and 
self-generated metadata, including annotations (reviews, comments, and usage 
data).” The working group has posted a general plan. The Library of Congress 
welcomes your comments and appreciates suggestions for improvement.
Deanna Marcum, “A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age (October 31, 2011): Bibliographic Framework Transi-
tion Initiative (Library of Congress),” Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/marc/transition/pdf/bibframework-10312011.
pdf (retrieved November 1, 2011).

Works in translation
Only about 3 percent of all books published in the United States are works in 
translation. Considering only literary fiction and poetry, the number is closer 
to 0.7 percent.
“Three Percent: About,” Three Percent: A resource for international literature at the University of Rochester, www.rochester.
edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?s=about (retrieved October 3, 2011).

Open Government Data
The Working Group on Open Government Data (a project of the Open Knowl-
edge Foundation) has produced a Web site for the following purposes: 1) to 
act as a central point of reference and support for people who are interested in 
open government data; 2) to develop principles for making official information 
legally and technically open; 3) to document background and status of initia-
tives to make official information open in different countries; and 4) to support 
development of open government data catalogs around the world, and ensure 
different platforms are technically interoperable.
Open Knowledge Foundation, http://opengovernmentdata.org/ (retrieved November 7, 2011).

Common Crawl
The Common Crawl Foundation makes a freely accessible index of 5 billion 
Web pages, their page rank, their link graphs, and other metadata. “It is crucial 
[in] our information-based society that Web crawl data be open and accessible 
to anyone who desires to utilize it,” writes Common Crawl Foundation director 
Lisa Green on the organization’s blog. The foundation is an organization dedi-
cated to benefit “individuals, academic groups, small start-ups, big companies, 
governments and nonprofits” by providing free access to an openly accessible 
archive of the Web “that’s not owned and controlled by Google.”
Marshall Kirkpatrick, “New 5 Billion Page Web Index with Page Rank Now Available for Free from Common Crawl 
Foundation,” ReadWriteWeb, https://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/common_crawl_foundation_announces_5 
_billion_page_w.php (retrieved November 8, 2011).