The International Conference: Bibliographic Control in the Digital Ecosystem, 8-12 February 2021

Organised by the Università degli Studi di Firenze, with the Associazione Italiana Biblioteche (AIB) and the European University Institute, the conference chair was Mauro Guerrini, member of the Bibliography Section Standing Committee. The organising team assembled an extensive list of promoters and partners from Italy and beyond, including the IFLA Bibliography Section (see BC2021.unifi.it). Given the premise that bibliographic control is radically changing because the bibliographic universe is radically changing – in its resources, actors, technologies, standards, and practices – the Conference's aim was to explore the new boundaries of Universal Bibliographic Control. In doing this the organisers assembled speakers representing every aspect of the publication chain, including publisher viewpoints as well as libraries. Standards were well represented, and national bibliographies, authority files, linked data and semantic web. Presentations also covered areas not usually considered when discussing bibliographic control but very important to university libraries, such as institutional repositories, preprint archive servers, and research data management. There were 35 papers.