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Presented at the seminar Libraries and the Semantic Web: the role of International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 25 Feb 2011TRANSCRIPT
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The ISBD/XML Study Group background, activities, plans
Mirna Willer, University of Zadar, HRISBD/XML SG [email protected]
Libraries and the Semantic Web: the role of International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)
WorkshopCataloguing and Indexing Group Scotland
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http://www.slainte.org.uk/events/EvntShow.cfm?uEventID=2578
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Background, activities, plans
ISBD/XML Study Group IFLA Congress, Quebec , Canada 2008: Cataloguing Section. ISBD
Review Group’s Material Designations Study Group recommended
to develop an XML schema for ISBD, and to start researching into "reviewing ISBD concepts and the standard itself by the application of web technologies, and eventually of evolving the standard into a tool open to the Semantic Web technologies and services“
The 2-year project proposed by the Study Group was accepted in 2008 by the IFLA Professional Board; 3rd year accepted (2011)
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Background, activities, plans
Data Model Meeting, British Library. Bibliographic Standards, London, 2007 between representatives of:
- RDA: Resource Description and Access (JSC), - the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), - IEEE Learning Object Metadata (IEEE LOM), and - W3C. Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Recommended activities that would provide benefits
including the library community getting
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Background, activities, plans
"a metadata standard that is compatible with the Web Architecture and that is fully interoperable with other Semantic Web initiatives“
DCMI RDA Task Group: to investigate options for representing bibliographic concepts and metadata in Resource Description Framework (RDF), the data model of the Semantic Web W3C.
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IFLA Congress, Durban, South Africa, 2007 IFLA FRBR Review Group took up the initiative and
started a project "to define appropriate namespaces for FRBR (entity-relationship) in RDF and other appropriate syntaxes“
IFLA Congress, Milan, Italy, 2009IFLA Namespaces Task Group was formed with support
by the IFLA Bibliography, Cataloguing, and Information Technology Sections:
IFLA Namespaces: Requirements and Options
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http://www.ifla.org/en/node/1795
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Background, activities, plans
IFLA Working Group was appointed to review the role of IFLA in setting and monitoring bibliographic standards, December 2009
IFLA Governing Board and Professional Committee, IFLA Conference, 2010
IFLA Bibliographic Standards Program (Core Activity) to oversee bibliographic standards activities within IFLA
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Background, activities, plans
The main goals of the ISBD/XML SG’s project were: (1) to build a consensus on the raison d'être of moving the ISBD
into the web environment, and define possible uses of such a product,
(2) to develop ISBDXML schema, (3) to ensure the interoperability of the product with similar ones
such as MARC/DCXML schemas, at least at the conceptual level, within the current Semantic Web technologies and services,
(4) to liaise with relevant constituencies in the field, and(5) to propose further development of software tools and services.
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Background, activities, plans
Anticipated results of the project were primarily the (re)positioning of the IFLA standard and its values of enabling provision and (re)use of authoritative structured bibliographic information in the Internet environment.
The anticipated beneficiaries and stakeholders will be all interested in producing/sharing/(re)using authoritative bibliographic information in the web environment.
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The expected outcomes were (1) to document on the use and application of
the ISBDXML, (2) the ISBDXML schema, and (3) to document on the directions of further
actions to position ISBD within the Semantic Web environment
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Background, activities, plans
IFLA Conference, Milan, Italy, 2009: ISBD/XML SG, 1st Meeting: re-direction of the project goal – from XML to RDF
G. Dunsire recommendation: to bypass the general XML mark-up and go directly to an RDF/XML environment which would situate ISBD within the Semantic Web framework
Goals revised: (2) develop an ISBD RDF/XML schema, (3) ensure the interoperability of the product with similar ones such as MARC/DCXML schemas, at least at the conceptual level, within the current semantic web technologies and services
The objective was further detailed with the tasks of analysing and defining the functionalities of ISBD elements in relation to FRBR, (UNI)MARC, and DC/XML schemas, new cataloguing rules such as RDA, REICAT and the Finnish cataloguing rules, analysing and supporting the concept of linked data, and promoting its relevance to vendors in support of the development of new generation library information systems
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Background, activities, plans
Goals revised: (2) develop an ISBD RDF/XML schema, (3) ensure the interoperability of the product with similar ones
such as MARC/DCXML schemas, at least at the conceptual level, within the current Semantic Web technologies and services
the tasks of analysing and defining the functionalities of ISBD elements in relation to FRBR, (UNI)MARC, and DC/XML schemas, new cataloguing rules such as RDA, REICAT, the concept of linked data, and promoting its relevance to vendors in support of the development of new generation library information systems
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IFLA Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2010
Preliminary representation of ISBD elements in Resource Description Framework (RDF) in Open Metadata Registry, based on the ISBD consolidated edition, draft of 2010-05-10 Open Metadata Registry
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The representation of ISBD elements in RDF: representation and usage constraints, such as mandatory/optional, order and repeatability of elements, and accepted to
(a) express ISBD elements as RDF properties and vocabularies, revision of ISBD elements / (RDF) properties
(b) express the metadata record structure as a Dublin Core Application Profile (DCAP), and
(c) express metadata output format, including punctuation, as an XSLT
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http://metadataregistry.org/
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http://metadataregistry.org/
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http://www.ifla.org/en/events/isbdxml-study-group-meeting
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Background, activities, plans
• To finalize the representation of the ISBD based on final consolidated edition (to be published in 2011) in RDF
• To update the application profile (and the XSLT display format for punctuation)
• Set guidelines for the treatment of translations in Open Metadata Registry (Spanish, Croatian, etc.)
• To discuss the representation of UNIMARC bibliographic format content designation in RDF
• To monitor the integration of the ISBD RDF representations with the IFLA infrastructure
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WHY???Authoritative & trustworthy bibliographic and authority
data in the Semantic Web environment!!! UBCIFLA standards branding® Libraries:
transformation of their catalogues into RDF triples to contribute to, and take advantage of the Semantic Web
“bibliographic” triples linked to triples from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference works, booksellers, publishers, and other agents in the bibliographic universe to enhance information services
internal processing: to check the integrity of the record itself by identifying missing elements, sequencing errors, etc.
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WHY???Properties from the ISBD namespace can be
re-used in other application profiles and mixed with elements from other namespaces
End-users: providing means to librarians for preparing their metadata for an environment in which users will be enabled to perform tasks according to their specific needs, and not necessarily only those traditionally envisioned by librarians
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Thank you for your attention!
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References• British Library. Bibliographic Standards. Data Model Meeting. Available at:
http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/meeting.html• DCMI. Guidelines for Dublin Core application profiles. Available at:
http://dublincore.org/documents/profile-guidelines/• DCMI RDA Task Group wiki. Available at: http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Available at: http://dublincore.org/• Dunsire, Gordon. UNIMARC, RDA and the Semantic Web. Presented at World Library and Information
Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy. Available at: http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla75/135-dunsire-en.pdf
• IFLA. Cataloguing Section. FRBR Review Group. Available at: http://www.ifla.org/en/frbr-rg • IFLA. Cataloguing Section. ISBD Review Group. ISBD/XML Study Group. Available at:
http://www.ifla.org/en/node/1795 • IFLA Namespaces Task Group. Available at: http://www.ifla.org/en/node/5353• Joint Steering Group for Development of RDA. RDA: resource description and access. Available at:
http://www.rda-jsc.org/rda.html• Open Metadata Registry. Available at: http://metadataregistry.org/• Resource description framework (RDF). Available at: http://www.w3.org/RDF/• Willer, Mirna; Gordon Dunsire; Boris Bosančić. ISBD and the Semantic Web. // JLIS.it [Journal of Library and
Information Science. Italy = Rivista italiana di biblioteconomia, archivistica e scienza dell'informazione] 1, 2(2010), 213-236. DOI: 10.4403/jlis.it-4536; URI: http://leo.cilea.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/4536
• W3C. SKOS Simple knowledge organization system. Available at: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/