Moving from Flat to Linked Data In a Community Resources Database • Tuning BIBFRAME
Channel: LD4
Date: 2021-07-21

Moving from Flat to Linked Data In a Community Resources Database, Tammy Moorse
This session will present lessons learned in moving from a flat record Drupal database in to a linked data Drupal database for the Red Book of Community Information at Hamilton Public Library. Key discussion topics will include converting metadata from flat to linked records and leveraging open data portals for consistency and accuracy.

Tuning BIBFRAME : modeling music compilations & medium of performance in BIBFRAME & beyond, Nancy Lorimer and Kevin Kishimoto
Cataloging music in a MARC environment has always been a complex task because traditional descriptive standards and systems have been developed based primarily on individual text-based works by individual authors that are issued as individual publications. On the other hand, a single music resource can be the combined effort of multiple contributors (e.g. composers, performers, producers), is often a compilation, and non-textual aspects, such as the medium of performance, are important to users but not well represented in catalog records. Linked data, with its emphasis on relationships and more flexible structures promises to improve the description of music resources, especially when it comes to how contribution, compilations, and medium of performance are modeled. A small group of librarians from Stanford, the Library of Congress and UC San Diego have been working to develop usable models and best practices for medium of performance and for compilations, based on BIBFRAME, the Library Reference Model (LRM), and the Performed Music Ontology for use by the North American music cataloging community at large. In this talk, we present the results of our work, as models, application profiles, and Sinopia templates.