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BIBFRAME: Libraries can lead Linked Data

Julia Hauser, Reinhold Heuvelmann und Lars G. Svensson

Libraries are increasingly exchanging data with other cultural heritage institutions

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Everyone here knows that this is both an opportunity and a challenge

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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change”

Paraphrase of Darwin by Leon C. Megginson

Non-libraries have a problem with data encoded in MARC (and so do some librarians…)

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We need a format that allows for easier data reuse – inside and outside of libraries

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BIBFRAME is an attempt to achieve that

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There won't be any Semantic Web that any mortal can understand until librarians help build it!

Uche Ogbuji on Twitter, 2013-01-27

BIBFRAME will determine a transition path from MARC 21 to an exchange format based on linked data principles

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Important requirements are:

– Model agnostic

– Support RDA, and other cataloging rules

– Extensible for new kinds of library material

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The model is based on four core classes:

– Work

– Instance

– Authority

– Annotation

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Interoperability with other models is achieved through community profiles

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The DNB has an experimental implementation of the BIBFRAME model

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The instance data is mainly basedon strings<bf:Instance rdf:about="http://d-nb.info/102239648X"><bf:modeOfIssuance>Einbändiges Werk</bf:modeOfIssuance>

<bf:instanceOf rdf:resource="http://d-nb.info/bf_temp/work_102239648X" /><bf:isbn13>9783866802476</bf:isbn13><bf:ean>9783866802476</bf:ean><bf:nbn>12,N22</bf:nbn><bf:nbn>12,A36</bf:nbn><bf:local>

<bf:identifierScheme>VLB / Netzpublikationen</bf:identifierScheme><bf:identifierValue>4039423</bf:identifierValue>

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Peter Beenk und Uwe Wetzner</bf:responsibilityStatement><bf:extent>127 S.</bf:extent><bf:dimensions>24 cm, 310 g</bf:dimensions>

<bf:illustrativeContentNote>zahlr. Ill., Kt.</bf:illustrativeContentNote> <bf:title>Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg</bf:title>

<bf:providerEntity><bf:providerName>Sutton</bf:providerName><bf:providerPlace>Erfurt</bf:providerPlace><bf:providerDate>2012</bf:providerDate>

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The information about the work ismore linked to other entities

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rdf:resource="http://d-nb.info/gnd/1025471474" /><bf:label>Beenk, Peter</bf:label><bf:resourceRole

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rdf:resource="http://d-nb.info/gnd/132364107" /><bf:label>Wetzner, Uwe</bf:label><bf:resourceRole

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</bf:Person></bf:associatedAgent><bf:subject rdf:resource="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4094661-7" /><bf:class-ddc>943.515087</bf:class-ddc><bf:class-ddc>943.087</bf:class-ddc><bf:title>Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg</bf:title>

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For full integration into the linked data service we need to create profiles

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Possible solution

Much work remains to be done

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The BIBFRAME vocabulary must be enriched and then stabilised

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The model will be continually developed

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The new BIBFRAME editor shall assist cataloguers working with the model

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DNB will continue to update its service

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So can BIBFRAME replace MARC?

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We need a format that allows for easier data reuse and MARC is a problem

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BIBFRAME is an attempt to achieve that

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The DNB will continue to explore the format and its possibilities

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BIBFRAME – Making library data more linked

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More information at

– http://bibframe.org/

– http://www.dnb.de/EN/bibframe

– Mailing list: http://listserv.loc.gov/listarch/bibframe.html

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