1. BIBFRAME
Linked Data: the New Bibliographic Framework in the
Post-MARC World
American Association of Law Libraries 2013
14 July, 2013
Seattle,Washington USA
Eric Miller
em@zepheira.com
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2. • President and Founder of
Zepheira
• Former W3C Activity
Lead for Semantic Web
• MIT Research Scientist
• Founder and Associate
Director, Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative
• Senior Scientist at OCLC
Hi, I’m Eric
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3. BIBFRAME
“The Initiative aims to re-envision and, in
the long run, implement a new
bibliographic environment for libraries
that makes "the network" central and
makes interconnectedness commonplace.”
- Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data:
Linked Data Model and Supporting Services
Library of Congress, November 21, 2012
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4. BIBFRAME
“The Initiative aims to re-envision and, in
the long run, implement a new
bibliographic environment for libraries
that makes "the network" central and
makes interconnectedness commonplace.”
- Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data:
Linked Data Model and Supporting Services
Library of Congress, November 21, 2012
* robust enough to deal with 40 years ago
* flexible enough to deal with 40+ years from now
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5. BIBFRAME
“The Initiative aims to re-envision and, in
the long run, implement a new
bibliographic environment for libraries
that makes "the network" central and
makes interconnectedness commonplace.”
- Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data:
Linked Data Model and Supporting Services
Library of Congress, November 21, 2012
* memory organizations
libraries, museums, archives, publishers, etc.
* community (users) they serve
Thursday, July 18, 13
6. BIBFRAME
“The Initiative aims to re-envision and, in
the long run, implement a new
bibliographic environment for libraries
that makes "the network" central and
makes interconnectedness commonplace.”
- Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data:
Linked Data Model and Supporting Services
Library of Congress, November 21, 2012
* not on the web
* but of the web
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10. Linked Data
"a term used to describe a recommended best
practice for exposing, sharing, and
connecting pieces of data,
information, and knowledge on the Semantic
Web using URIs and RDF."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data
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23. What is BIBFRAME?
• Bibframe is a linked data model for library (memory organization)
data
• Requirements and Goals:
• Inherent the robust nature of the MARC standard
• Be content model agnostic - RDA, DACS, CCO, etc.
• Handle description and management of traditional (books,
serials, etc.) and non-traditional materials (born digital, data
sets)
• Integrate supporting data (Authority, Holdings, Classification)
• Benefits from all the goodness the Web offers (web triggers,
collaboration, data driven, etc.)
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28. Inspired by - Our legislative metadata model, Tom Bruce Feb 27, 2013
http://blog.law.cornell.edu/metasausage/2013/02/27/our-legislative-metadata-model/
sponsor classification
hasInstance
publisher
PDF
committeeBilltopicPerson
hasPart
isPartOf
House
Report
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29. Inspired by - Our legislative metadata model, Tom Bruce Feb 27, 2013
http://blog.law.cornell.edu/metasausage/2013/02/27/our-legislative-metadata-model/
Law Classification Added to
Library of Congress Linked Data
Service
April 11, 2013 by Tina Gheen
http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/04/law-
classification-added-to-library-of-
congress-linked-data-service/sponsor classification
hasInstance
publisher
PDF
committeeBilltopicPerson
hasPart
isPartOf
House
Report
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30. Web - the Power of
Human Computing
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31. Web - the Power of
Human Computing
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41. Initial Phase
• Completed Landscape Assessment
• Initial draft of Linked Data model Bibliographic Framework as
a Web of Data: Linked Data Model and Supporting Services
• Prototype of translation services and Interfaces
• http://bibframe.org/
• Vocabulary mappings to MARC and RDA
• Project roadmap and deployment strategic report
• Early Experimenters to help refine this work
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42. Early Experimenters
• British Library
• Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
• George Washington University
• National Library of Medicine
• OCLC
• Princeton University
• Library of Congress
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43. Next phase
• Extended Experimentation with more institutions
and data types
• Create more detailed documentation
• CompleteVocabulary Mapping to address all
MARC and RDA fields
• Refine Serialization and Protocols
• Named Profiles / constraints
• Work with developer, vender community to
develop tools and services
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44. “Rethink your value”
• Libraries have huge trust credit in physical space
• This translates into the Web
• Library as a Platform / Service
• BIBFRAME isn’t just about replacing MARC
• Weaving the Best of the Web, Libraries and
Users together
• Bringing credibility to the Web
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45. Next Steps for you
• Continue to learn about Linked Data (inside and
outside of Library community)
• Join the discussion
• bibframe@listserv.loc.gov
• Follow updates to documentation, examples,
vocabulary, services, prototypes, etc.
• http://bibframe.org/
• Start to engage vendors
• “what is your Linked Data strategy”?
• Define your own Linked Data strategy
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