Resources

Zine-specific standards, projects, and practice

• Zine Union Catalog (ZineCat)
  A union catalog dedicated to zines that aggregates records from multiple libraries and archives so users can discover zine holdings via a single interface. Direct inspiration for the union-catalog and holdings aspects of ZineCore2/RepoCore2/HoldingCore2.
• Zine Union Catalog overview – Zine Libraries Info
  Community-facing description of ZineCat’s goals, how it supports cooperative cataloging and sharing holdings data. Helps ground the Core2 family in real zine-union catalog workflows.
• The Zine Union Catalog – NYU Faculty Digital Archive
  Scholarly documentation of ZineCat’s design, including how it crosswalks MARC, Dublin Core, and spreadsheet schemas into a unified catalog. Informs ZineCore2’s crosswalk-friendly, profile-based design.
• xZINECOREx Generator
  A tool that turns human-entered zine metadata into xZINECOREx (Dublin Core-based) XML. Shows the previous generation of zine-centric DC application and motivates a cleaner, JSON/JSON‑LD oriented successor in ZineCore2.
• Standardizing Zine Metadata – xZINECOREx
  An analysis of xZINECOREx as a content standard, including its elements, strengths, and limitations. Useful for understanding what to keep and improve upon in ZineCore2.
• Zine cataloging – Zine Libraries Info
  Practical guidance and community discussions about how zine libraries describe zines, including mention of shared standards and union catalog ambitions. Ground truth for what fields zine librarians actually use.
• Metadata for Zine Collecting – Scholars’ Lab
  Deep dive into one practitioner’s Airtable-based zine catalog, with fields for title, series, issue/version, topics, distro status, and more. Directly influenced ZineCore2’s series/issue/edition fields and HoldingCore2’s distro/access concepts.

Vocabularies and subject work

• Anchor Archive Zine Subject Thesaurus
  A public subject thesaurus specifically for zines and alternative materials, used for cataloging and browsing the Anchor Archive collection. Primary inspiration for the ZineCore2 controlled subject vocabulary and Subject model.

Dublin Core and application profiles

• DCMI: Guidelines for Dublin Core Application Profiles
  Foundational guidance on how to design Dublin Core–based application profiles: identifying requirements, selecting terms, and documenting usage. Basis for treating ZineCore2/RepoCore2/HoldingCore2/AgentCore2 as DCAPs.
• DCMI: DCTAP – Dublin Core Tabular Application Profiles
  Specification and primer for DC TAP, a simple tabular format for defining application profiles. Directly informs the Core2 TAP CSVs you’re using to define shapes and constraints.

Repositories and identifiers

• ISO 15511 – International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organizations (ISIL)
  Defines ISIL, a global identifier system for libraries, archives, museums, and related organizations. Informs RepoCore2’s optional isil field for interoperable repository IDs.
• MARC Code List for Organizations – Library of Congress
  Official list of MARC organization codes used to identify libraries and institutions in MARC data and union catalogs. Basis for RepoCore2’s optional marc_org_code field.

Conceptual models and library tech context

• BIBFRAME 2.0 Model Overview – Library of Congress
  Explains the Work/Instance/Item model used to describe bibliographic resources and holdings in a Linked Data context. Informs the Core2 hierarchy: Zine (work/instance), Holding (item), Repo (organization), Agent (agent).
• Schema.org: ArchiveOrganization
  Defines a schema.org type for archives and related organizations, with fields for name, address, URL, etc. Helps align RepoCore2 with web-wide practices for representing repositories.
• Schema.org: Organization
  General organization structure in schema.org, including name, url, address, and identifiers. Provides mapping targets for RepoCore2 and AgentCore2 when exposing JSON‑LD.