The Missing Link-The Evolving Current State of Linked Data for Serials-Fallgren
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Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
Nancy Fallgren Metadata Specialist Librarian National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health, DHHS
NASIG June 7, 2013
A Little Background
MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC) (1967)
A communication format for sharing cataloging via “machines”
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Technology has advanced . . .
MARC has not kept pace.
Cataloging has changed . . .
• Resource Description and Access (RDA) (2013)
– Focuses on relationships in and among resources
– Vocabularies and relationships are being developed in a linked data format
– Adjustments to MARC to accommodate RDA renders both standards more complicated and confusing
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MARC has been left behind.
Replacing MARC “On the Record” (Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, 2009)
– 3.1.1 Develop a More Flexible Extensible Metadata Carrier – 3.1.2 Integrate Library Standards into Web Environment
Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee (2011)
– Findings: Systems, Metadata, and Technical Feasibility (p. 101) • “ . . . it [MARC] has reached the limit for significant improvement
in allowing our data to be widely integrated and used across the information landscape.”
• “While one of RDA’s goals is to explicitly express resource relationships, MARC will not allow our systems to easily display and utilize these relationships. . . . MARC may hinder the separation of elements and ability to use URIs in a linked data environment.”
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BIBFRAME’s Goals
• Flexible/extensible framework for adaptability and longevity – Rule agnostic
– Web-based
• Leverage linked data model for sharing resource description – Make use of controlled vocabularies and authoritative
data sets published as URIs
– Make explicit relationships within and among resources at a granular level
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The Semantic Web: From Linked
Documents . . . BOOK, written by AUTHOR and published by
PUBLISHER, is about TOPIC.
<Title> BOOK
<Creator> AUTHOR
<Publisher> PUBLISHER
<Subject> TOPIC
<URL> http://ebk/eBOOK.pdf
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To Linked Data
BOOK, written by AUTHOR and published by PUBLISHER, is about TOPIC.
http://resource/BOOKid <http://hasAuthor> http://viaf/AUTHORid
http://resource/BOOKid <http://isPublishedBy> http://onix/PUBLISHERid
http://resource/BOOKid <http://isAbout> http://LSCH/TOPICid
http://resource/BOOKid <http://hasURL> http://ebk/eBOOK.pdf
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To Linked Data.
BOOK
Author
Subject
Publisher
Article
Journal
Author
Subject
hasPublisher
hasPublisher
hasCreator
hasCreator hasCreator
hasCreator
isAbout isAbout isAbout
publishedIn
Article
Article
Article
publishedIn
isAbout
hasCreator
hasURL
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Simple BIBFRAME Model
Authority
Work
Authority
Annotation
hasCreator hasSubject
hasInstance
hasReview Instance
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http://viaf.org/id
http://id.loc.gov/lcsh/id
http://bibframe/annotation/review/id
http://bibframe/work/id
http://bibframe/instance/id
BIBFRAME Who’s Who
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Early Experimenters
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• How does RDA fit in the proposed model?
• How will specific categories of resources fit in the proposed model, e.g., serials and music?
• How will non-MARC metadata schemes be mapped and encoded?
• What’s missing from the proposed model?
• How does BIBRAME align with Schema.org’s efforts in this same area?
Discussion Papers
• Annotations – (published May 2013)
• Authorities – (published May 2013)
• Relationships • Holdings and Items • Initial Articles and Sorting • Collections/Aggregates (including serials/journals) • Schema.org
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Serials in BIBFRAME
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Serials are messy Can a serial be a bf:Work, “a conceptual cataloging item,” when it’s grounded in time and place?
Should there be a new “Collection” class to collocate collections of bf:Works?
Should “Collection” be a type of bf:Work?
Are supplements new bf:Works?
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and complex.
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18 Slide by Sally McCallum, ALA Midwinter 2013
Get Involved
Get more information and transform MARC records at BIBFRAME.org
Comment on the BIBFRAME listserv at http://listserv.loc.gov/listarch/bibframe.html
Thank you!
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