Developing BIBFRAME application profiles for a cataloging community
Channel: SWIB
Date: 2020-11-25

Talk by Paloma Graciani-Picardo / Nancy Lorimer, Harry Ransom Center - University of Texas at Austin / Stanford University, United States of America

As libraries experiment with integrating BIBFRAME (BF) data into library workflows and applications, it is increasingly clear that there is little to no formal agreement on what a baseline BF description might be, and even how specific properties are modeled in what is a very flexible ontology. This basic agreement is imperative, at least in these early days, for data producers and developers in building out and implementing practical workflows and viable interactions among disparate data sources; the more flavors that need to be dealt with, the more difficult initial implementation will be. Additionally, there is little consensus on how to integrate BF and RDA, our primary cataloging standard, and it is difficult to move ahead without a basic mapping. The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), with its close connection to the Library of Congress and the Linked Data for Production grants, and its focus on standards-building in the MARC cataloging community, is well set up to develop standards and become a steward of well-formed BF. To that end, the PCC Sinopia Application Profiles Task Group is working on developing BF application profiles through creating PCC templates in Sinopia, the linked data editor developed in Linked Data for Production 2 grant, to serve as the basis for metadata creation by the PCC community. In this talk, we discuss the community process and challenges encountered in creating applications profiles through template development, including modeling questions, technical challenges, and reconciling BF with RDA and PCC standards.

Streamed live on 2020-11-25 at SWIB20 Conference (23 - 27 November 2020)
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