Project description

The established formats used by libraries for exchanging data, such as MARC 21 and MODS, are no longer deemed fit for purpose as a result of the increasing level of digital interconnection in the information world. Consequently the Library of Congress launched the "Bibliographic Framework Initiative" (BIBFRAME) in 2011, aimed at replacing the existing formats. The possibilities opened up by Linked Data and Semantic Web technologies were to be taken into account. Modelling and vocabulary issues were explored in collaboration with Zepheira, OCLC and other partners. The decisions were then documented and various tools made available for testing.

As one of the members of the "Early Implementers Group", the German National Library (DNB) actively supported the initiative as part of its efforts to internationalise the German standards. The main objective of the first phase of the BIBFRAME project was to contribute to the BIBFRAME point papers and to glean experience from carrying out a prototypical conversion of the German National Library data from Pica+ into the BIBFRAME format. This conversion has been available since February 2014 via a link in the bibliographic information of the DNB catalogue.

The German National Library continues to act as disseminator and contact partner for the initiative within the German-speaking countries and makes use of existing structures and bodies to provide information and incorporate this experience into the initiative. Collaboration in the PCC Task Group on URIs in MARC is advancing the preparation for new solutions.

Project framework

Duration

October 2012 to February 2014 (phase 1) and ongoing

Further information

• Homepage of the Library of Congress on the Bibliographic Framework Initiative
• BIBFRAME Vocabulary Navigator der Firma Zepheira
• Common Ground. A co-publication of the Library of Congress and OCLC Research
• PCC Task Group on URIs in MARC

Statements of the German National Library

• Response of the German National Library to the Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative General Plan announced by the Library of Congress in October 2011, [17.01.2012] (PDF, 104KB, Barrier-free file)
• Report by the German National Library's Office for Library Standards, Office for Data Formats to the Bibframe Early Implementers Group, December 10th, 2012 (PDF, 69KB, Barrier-free file)
• Mapping Pica+ to BIBFRAME: First observations, June 20th, 2013 (PDF, 358KB, Barrier-free file)
• German Feedback to the Point Paper on "BIBFRAME Use Cases and Requirements", September 13th, 2013 (PDF, 120KB, Barrier-free file)

Articles

• Julia Hauser, Reinhold Heuvelmann: BIBFRAME. Erste Schritte auf dem Weg zu einem neuen Standard. In: Dialog mit Bibliotheken (Bd. 25, 2013, Nr. 2: 37-41)
• Julia Hauser, Reinhold Heuvelmann: BIBFRAME: Was ist das, was hat das mit uns zu tun und wofür brauchen wir es? In: Interessengruppe Wissenschaftliche BibliothekarInnen Schweiz: Rundbrief (Rundbrief 63, September 2013 - Erschliessung: 20-22)
• Julia Hauser, Reinhold Heuvelmann, Stefanie Rühle, Jakob Voß: Interoperable Metadaten im Giant Global Graph.In: Dialog mit Bibliotheken (Bd. 26, 2014, Nr. 2: 41-46)
• Reinhold Heuvelmann: Bibframe, un nouveau modèle de données pour les bibliothèques. In: Arabesques (n° 83 - juillet - août - septembre 2016: 10-11)
  

Talks

• Audio recording and slides of the "BIBFRAME" talk given at the Berlin Colloquium of Library Science on 2 February 2016 https://www.ibi.hu-berlin.de/de/bbk/abstracts/ws1516/heuvelmann
• Slides of talks given by Reinhold Heuvelmann on slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/sollbruchstelle

Research papers on BIBFRAME with participation by the German National Library

• Klára Rösslerová: Historie, současnost a budoucnost výměnných formátů bibliografických dat [History, Presence and Future of Exchangeable Formats of Bibliographic Data]. Praha, 2016
• Friedel Geeraert: From the library catalogue to the Semantic Web - The conversion process from MARC 21 to BIBFRAME 2.0

Events

• European BIBFRAME Workshop 2018
• European BIBFRAME Workshop 2017

Contact

Reinhold Heuvelmann
bibframe@dnb.de