Gordon Dunsire Chair IFLA Namespaces Technical Group ChairElect JSCRDA Lightning presentation to NISO Bibliographic Roadmap meeting April 1516 Baltimore MD USA International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions ID: 376111
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IFLA in RDF (+ RDA)
Gordon Dunsire
Chair, IFLA Namespaces Technical Group; Chair-Elect, JSC/RDA
Lightning presentation to NISO Bibliographic Roadmap meeting, April 15-16, Baltimore, MD, USASlide2
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Maintaining bibliographic standards for over 40 years
International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)
Bibliographic description content standard
UNIMARC (ISO 2709)
Record format (Bibliographic, Authorities)
Functional Requirements family
FRBR, FRAD, FRSAD
Conceptual models based on user tasks
Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloguing (
MulDiCat
)
26 languages for multilingual cataloguing environmentSlide3
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC)
Used world-wide
RDF representations developed since 2009
Open Metadata Registry used for RDF element sets and value vocabulariesSlide4
Standard
Element sets
Value vocabs
Status
Maps
FRBRer
CompleteRDA*FRBRooCompleteCIDOC CRMFRADCompleteFRSADCompleteFR consolidatedOngoingFR family*ISBD (0-10)CompleteUNIMARC*, RDA*UNIMARC (10-100)Just startedISBD*MulDiCat (0-10)OngoingIFLA standards*RDA (10-100)OngoingFRBR*, ISBD*, MARC 21[MARC 21] (10-100)Ongoing*****
Current status of vocabularies
* Partial, under constructionSlide5
Maps
Maps based on “alignments”
Often
kinda-sameAs
Mostly out-of-date
Synchronization between “the Standard” and the RDF representation
Contextual documentation vs encapsulated semanticsExpense?Protocols between different maintenance organizations difficult to develop