Panel: BIBFRAME100 at the Library of Congress
Channel: LD4
Date: 2021-07-22

Speakers: Judith Cannon, Sally McCallum, Paul Frank
Moderators: Paul Bethke, Paloma Graciani Picardo

The experience of an institution that is taking practical steps towards linked data adoption and incorporating linked data into day-to-day library operations through an ambitious training and technical plan to move all library staff to BIBFRAME by the end of 2021. These plans include comprehensive linked data and BIBFRAME training, robust conversion tools to relate BIBFRAME and MARC, and reliance on the BIBFRAME expertise among current Library of Congress BIBFRAME Pilot participants, as they serve as training mentors. More detailed issues are how to manage internal library functions in a linked data environment – things like acquisitions, reference, and collection maintenance functions, authority work, importing resources from external files, and rethinking how statistics are compiled and what needs to be counted, etc.