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1. SemWeb & BIBFRAME
Semantic Web Applications in Libraries:
The Road to BIBFRAME
#bibframe
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

2. BIBFRAME: Agenda
Intro
The Road to BIBFRAME: Linked Data and Libraries
BIBFRAME Requirements, Expectations, Objectives
BIBFRAME Model
BIBFRAME Ecosystem: Data Representation and Communication
Current questions/work
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

3. What is BIBFRAME?
The Bibliographic Framework Initiative
will re-imagine and implement a
bibliographic environment
for a post-MARC world.
Key dates:
May 2011 – Initiative announced.
October 2011 – LC publishes general plan
May 2012 – Zepheira LLC contracted to evaluate related initiatives and data modeling
November 2012 – LC publishes high-level model document
January 2013 – LC publishes http://bibframe.org/ which includes a draft vocabulary
August 2013 – Primary Use Cases and Requirements formally recorded and established
January 2014 – Vocabulary 1.0. Implementation experiments begin.
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

4. Before BIBFRAME
1999
A simple metadata data model
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

5. Before BIBFRAME
ca. 2007-2010
URIs for People (and, later, Organizations, Places, etc.)
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

6. Before BIBFRAME
2009
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

7. ID: What is it?
ID makes LC owned or maintained
data available as Linked Data.
LC Subject Headings (May 2009)
LC Children's Subject Headings (May 2009)
LC Genre Forms Terms (June 2011)
LC Name Authority File (August 2011)
LC Classification (Select Classes) (June 2012)
Thesaurus of Graphic Materials (June 2010)
PREMIS Vocabularies (some in 2010; all in 2013)
MARC Relators (June 2010)
MARC Geographic Areas (January 2011)
MARC Countries (January 2011)
MARC Languages (January 2011)
MARC Organizations (May 2013)
ISO 639-1 (January 2011)
ISO 639-2 (January 2011)
ISO 639-5 (January 2011)
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

8. Before BIBFRAME
2011
Bibliographic data!
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

9. Before BIBFRAME
2011-2012
URIs for People, Organizations, Places, etc.
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

10. Before BIBFRAME
2011-2012
URIs for People, Organizations, Places, etc.
And Works.
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

11. Before BIBFRAME
2011
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

12. Before BIBFRAME
Additional efforts:
AGROVOC (FAO)
National Diet Library (Japan)
Spanish National Library
Dewey Decimal Classification
Europeanna
STW Thesaurus for Economics
USDA National Agricultural Library
Getty Vocabularies
Hungarian National Library
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
And many more...
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

13. BIBFRAME
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

14. BIBFRAME
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

15. BIBFRAME
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

16. BIBFRAME
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

17. BIBFRAME
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

18. BIBFRAME
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92062246
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007751
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80016154
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

19. BIBFRAME
Increasing User Expectations
URIs, URIs, URIs
Reduced ambiguity
Decentralization of data
Ability to annotate or otherwise augment data
Flexibility – for future cataloging and uses
Leverage technology while leaving librarians to their areas of expertise
Web-ready/web-accessible – more openness
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

20. What is BIBFRAME?
Requirements/expectations:
Content model agnostic (RDA, DACS, CCO)
Must support RDA cataloging
Description and management for all types of library holdings
Traditional materials, such as books and serials,
But also digital materials, such as born-digital video, ebooks.
Provision for data that supports bibliographic description
Authority data, Holdings, Classification
Replace MARC
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

21. BIBFRAME
Bibliographic Framework Initiative and Linked Data
Linked Data
RDF Vocabulary/Data Model
Network-based technological protocols
For the web, on the web
Relationships
Links replace strings = Reduced maintenance
URIs = authority
Atomicity = flexibility
Relationship to MARC
MARC has provided means for data representation
MARC has been a suitable communication format
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

22. BF Model & Vocab
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

23. BF Model & Vocab
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

24. BIBFRAME
Core Classes
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

25. BIBFRAME
Work
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

26. BIBFRAME
Work
Resource reflecting the conceptual essence of the cataloged item
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

27. BIBFRAME
Work
Instance
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

28. BIBFRAME
Work
Instance
Resource reflecting a material embodiment of a BIBFRAME Work
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

29. BIBFRAME
Work
Instance
Authority
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

30. BIBFRAME
Work
Instance
Authority
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
Resource reflecting key authority concepts
that have defined relationships to Works
and Instances
19 February 2014
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31. BIBFRAME
Authority
For a
Person
Organization
Family
Meeting
Jurisdiction
Place
Topic
Temporal Concept
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

32. BIBFRAME
Authority
A Local
Access Point
May have its own
HTTP URI
Enables data
aggregation
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

33. BIBFRAME
Authority
<http://bibframe.org/auth/person/charles_robert_darwin>
a bf:Person ;
bf:authorizedAccessPoint “Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882” ;
bf:hasAuthority <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095637> ;
A Local
Access Point
May have its own
HTTP URI
Enables data
aggregation
bf:variantLabel “Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882” ;
bf:variantLabel “ 達爾文 , 1809-1882” ;
bf:varianLabel “1882-1809, ‫; ”تشارلز داروين‬
bf:bioSource <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_Darwin> ;
dbpprop:fields <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Natural_history> ;
foaf:depiction <http://upload.wikimedia.org/Charles_Darwin_seated_crop.jpg> .
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

34. BIBFRAME
Annotation
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
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NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

35. BIBFRAME
Annotation
Assertions about the
other core class elements
Works – reviews, abstract, excerpts
Instances – holdings, book cover images
Name authority – author information
Administrative metadata
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

36. BIBFRAME
Annotations (cont'd)
Annotations matter when it is
important to know who makes
an assertion.
Annotations are no less important
than Work or Instances or
Authorities.
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

37. BIBFRAME
Annotations (cont'd)
Annotations are additional assertions
Local, as in holdings
Local, selected reviews
External, publisher description
By contrast
Works and Instances
could
be controlled.
Authorship does not change.
Place of Publication doesn't change.
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

38. BIBFRAME
annotates
BIBFRAME
BIBFRAME
Annotation
Annotation
target
Rating
Rating
BIBFRAME
BIBFRAME
Work
Work
annotates
Halo: Reach
Halo: Reach
annotator
http://www.esrb.org/32424
http://www.esrb.org/32424
annotator
BIBFRAME
BIBFRAME
Annotation
Annotation
Annotation Agent
Annotation Agent
ESRB
ESRB
target
Rating
Rating
Annotation Agent
Annotation Agent
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/halo-reach
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/halo-reach
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

39. BIBFRAME Ecosystem
As Turtle
<http://id.loc.gov/resources/bibs/12010145> a bf:Work;
bf:title "Las aventuras de Huck;";
bf:classificationLCC <http://id.loc.gov/.../classification/PS1305>;
bf:primaryLanguage <http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/languages/spa>;
bf:authorizedAccessPoint "Twain, Mark,...Huckleberry Finn. Spanish";
bf:translationOf <http://id.loc.gov/resources/bibs/huck-finn>;
bf:uniformTitle "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Spanish".
<http://id.loc.gov/resources/instances/12010145> a bf:Instance;
bf:dimensions "18 cm.";
bf:extent "v. <1- >";
bf:illustrationNote "col. plates.";
bf:instanceOf <http://id.loc.gov/resources/bibs/12010145>;
bf:note "Author's pseud., Mark Twain, at head of title.";
bf:title "Las aventuras de Huck;" .
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

40. BIBFRAME Ecosystem
As RDF/XML
<rdf:RDF
xmlns:bf="http://bibframe.org/vocab/"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<bf:Instance rdf:about="http://id.loc.gov/resources/instances/12010145">
<bf:dimensions>18 cm.</bf:dimensions>
<bf:extent>v. &lt;1- &gt;</bf:extent>
<bf:illustrationNote>col. plates.</bf:illustrationNote>
<bf:instanceOf rdf:resource="http://id.loc.gov/resources/bibs/12010145" />
<bf:note>Author's pseud., Mark Twain, at head of title.</bf:note>
<bf:title>Las aventuras de Huck;</bf:title>
</bf:Instance>
<bf:Work rdf:about="http://id.loc.gov/resources/bibs/12010145">
<bf:title>Las aventuras de Huck;</bf:title>
<bf:classificationLCC rdf:resource="http://id.loc.gov/.../classification/PS1305" />
<bf:primaryLanguage rdf:resource="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/languages/spa" />
<bf:authorizedAccessPoint>
Twain, Mark,...Huckleberry Finn. Spanish
</bf:authorizedAccessPoint>
<bf:translationOf rdf:resource="http://id.loc.gov/resources/bibs/huck-finn" />
<bf:uniformTitle>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Spanish</bf:uniformTitle>
</bf:Work>
</rdf:RDF>
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

41. BIBFRAME Ecosystem
As JSON-LD
{
"@graph": [
{
"@id": "http://id.loc.gov/resources/instances/12010145",
"@type": "http://bibframe.org/vocab/Instance",
"http://bibframe.org/vocab/dimensions": "18 cm.",
"http://bibframe.org/vocab/extent": "v. <1- >",
"http://bibframe.org/vocab/illustrationNote": "col. plates.",
"http://bibframe.org/vocab/instanceOf": {
"@id": "http://id.loc.gov/resources/bibs/12010145"
},
"http://bibframe.org/vocab/note": "Author's pseud., Mark Twain, at head of title.",
"http://bibframe.org/vocab/title": "Las aventuras de Huck;"
},
{
"@id": "http://id.loc.gov/resources/bibs/12010145",
"@type": "http://bibframe.org/vocab/Work",
"http://bibframe.org/vocab/authorizedAccessPoint": "Twain, Mark,...Huckleberry Finn. Spanish",
"http://bibframe.org/vocab/title": "Las aventuras de Huck;",
"http://bibframe.org/vocab/translationOf": {
"@id": "http://id.loc.gov/resources/bibs/huck-finn"
},
"http://bibframe.org/vocab/uniformTitle": "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Spanish"
}
]
}
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

42. BIBFRAME Ecosystem
Machine understands
Gobbledygook.
Data exchange:
Present day
OPAC
Patron understands,
but...
Z39.50/SRU
ILS Database
Interface for...
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
Developer works with...
Cataloger works with...
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

43. BIBFRAME Ecosystem
Machine understands.
Data exchange:
The future?
Patron understands.
ILS Web Layer
Developer works with...
ILS Database
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
Cataloger works with...
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

44. BIBFRAME Ecosystem
Be on the Web....
Structured data is exposed
at the ILS Web Layer.
ILS Web Layer
HTTP is the transport protocol.
(Versus Z39.50)*
ILS Web Layer itself becomes a service.
Customary OPAC, of course,
but also:
Search API
Data access APIs
Web triggers send, receive packets
ILS Database
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

45. BIBFRAME Ecosystem
Be on the web...
Bringing the data out of the silo.
The possibility with combining data
representation & communication.
Today
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

46. BIBFRAME Ecosystem
Be on the web...
Bringing the data out of the silo.
The possibility with combining data
representation & communication.
Tomorrow
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

47. BIBFRAME
Current and Recent Work
●
Starting to test implementation ideas
●
Continue to add to vocabulary
●
Discussion papers
●
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●
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Communication use cases (OAI, Z39.50, triggers)
●
See the “BIBFRAME Use Cases and Requirements” document
Prototype BIBFRAME Input Tool
●
Experimental implementation of profiles
Aggregates (serials and collections)
Continue to work up test cases for data modeling
●
See http://bibframe.org/tools/tests/
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

48. BIBFRAME
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC

49. BIBFRAME
Review the vocabulary, compare MARC to BIBFRAME,
transform your data to BIBFRAME:
http://bibframe.org/
Join the conversation:
http://listserv.loc.gov/listarch/bibframe.html
Grab some code:
https://github.com/lcnetdev/marc2bibframe
Thanks. Questions?
Kevin Ford
Email: kefo@loc.gov
Twitter: @3windmills
Kevin Ford
NDMSO, Library of Congress
Email: kefo@loc.gov / Twitter: @3windmills
19 February 2014
The Semantic Web Coming of Age
NISO Virtual Conference, Washington, DC