BIBFRAME Basics @ UF: Home

OCLC / Library of Congress Working Paper (Issued 1/15)

Common Ground: Exploring Compatibilities Between the Linked Data Models of the Library of Congress and OCLC (PDF Download)

Library of Congress BIBFRAME site
Background information and numerous links, including BIBFRAME profiles, BIBFRAME model, MARC to BIBFRAME Comparison, BIBFRAME Demonstration Data Sets, BIBFRAME Editor, LC updates, and more. 

BIBFRAME and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC)

BIBFRAME listserv

• Archives
• BIBFRAME Topics and Issues  (topical view of discussions, questions, and conclusions)

LibHub Initiative

OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Management Interest Group / hangingtogether blog

• Synchronizing metadata among different databases
• BIBFRAME Testing and Implementation  (summary of BIBFRAME discussions among OCLC Research Library Partners' metadata managers)

BIBFRAME and related training/webinars:

• Introducing the BIBFRAME Model: high-level concepts and objectives
• Transitioning from MARC to BIBFRAME: the environment and the format
• BIBFRAME and Cataloging: changing landscapes (ppt)
• Introducing Linked Data and the Semantic Web
• Library Linked Data: Research and Adoption (Library Technology Reports, July 2013; authentication required)
  • Chapter 1: Metadata developments in libraries and other cultural heritage institutions
  • Chapter 2: Building blocks of linked open data in libraries
  • Chapter 3: Three case studies in linked, open data
  • Chapter 4: Issues, opportunities, and trends in metadata
• Library Data [R]evolution: Applying Linked Data Concepts (4 recorded presentations held February 10, 2015)
• The Next Web (TED Talk by Ted Berners-Lee, March 2009)
• W3C RDF Primer
• What is RDF?
• W3C Semantic Web bibliography
• Library Juice Academy series
• Zepheira’s Linked Data and BIBFRAME Practical Practitioner Training
  • Zepheira's BIBFRAME Scribe tool
• Lynda.com (to access, go to UFIT training page and click on lynda.com icon)
  • XML Essential Training (includes info on XSLT, XPath, XQuery, RSS)
  • Real-World XML
  • Appreciating the Value of the Semantic Web (4 minute video)
  • Understanding RDF, RDFa, and RDFa Lite (part of the Web Semantics class)

Articles

• Ending the Invisible Library (Library Journal, February 24, 2015)
• Linking Libraries to the Web: Linked Data and the Future of the Bibliographic Record (Information Technology and Libraries, December 2014)
• Cornell's LTS and Linked Data: a position paper
   

Name Identifiers

• Registering Researchers in Authority Files (OCLC Research Report) - see also overview webinar
• Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
• International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)
• ORCID

Schema.org

• The Relationship Between BIBFRAME and OCLC's Linked Data Model of Bibliographic Description: A Working Paper (June 2013)
• OCLC's Linked Data Initiative: Using Schema.org to Make Library Data Relevant on the Web (Information Services Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2012)

MarcEdit - see videos about the MarcEdit BIBFRAME Testbed, JSON Object Viewer, and Linked Records Tool

Triplestore