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Chapter 5: Resources
Karen Coyle
Abstract

Library data has been designed to be read and interpreted by librarians and users. Although there are some controlled data fields, most of what is in the library catalog entry is text. The machine as user has not gotten a great deal of attention in the library cataloging environment. Now there's yet another potential user of library data, and that user is the Web and services that function on the Web. If we are to serve our users, then we need to deliver library services to users via the Web. But delivery over the network is not enough; our services must not only be on the Web, but need to be of the Web. With Web-based data, we can use the vast information resources there to enhance our data by creating relationships between library data and information resources. This will increase not only opportunities for users to discover the library and its resources, but also the value of the data by allowing its use in a wide variety of contexts.

The idea that library metadata will be used widely on the open Web changes the meaning of cataloging: cataloging will no longer be limited to the creation of records for the library catalog; the data will serve other functions as well, and users who may never directly make use of the library catalog. This is a true expansion of the role of library data, to the point where it can be used for any bibliographic function. However, the effort of cataloging need not increase: instead, the sharing of data can increase, and with some forethought the act of cataloging can draw on cooperative data sources. To be sure, redesign of cataloging systems will be needed.

There are four steps that must be taken in order to enter into the world of linked data: defining the data model, defining the data elements, defining the data vocabularies, and developing rules for data application. This issue of Library Technology Reports provides an explanation, using concrete models and real-world examples, of how to facilitate this transformation.
FRBR
Official Documents at IFLA

IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report, Sept. 1997, as amended and corrected through Feb. 2009, http://archive.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr_2008.pdf.

Patton, Glenn E., ed. Functional Requirements for Authority Data: A Conceptual Model. IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control 34. Munich: K.G. Saur, 2009.

Analysis of FRBR

Carlyle, Allyson. “Understanding FRBR as a Conceptual Model: FRBR and the Bibliographic Universe.” Library Resources and Technical Services 50, no. 4 (Oct. 2006): 264–273.

Le Bœuf, Patrick. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR): Hype or Cure-all? Binghamton, NY: Haworth Information Press, 2005.

Maxwell, Robert L. FRBR: A Guide for the Perplexed. Chicago: American Library Association, 2008.

Miksa, Shawne. “Understanding ‘Support’ of FRBR's Four User Tasks in MARC Encoded Bibliographic Records.” ASIST Bulletin 33, no. 6 (Sept. 2007): 24–26.

Tillett, Barbara. What Is FRBR? A Conceptual Model for the Bibliographic Universe. Washington, DC: Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service, 2003.

Yee, Martha M. “FRBR and Moving Image Materials: Content (Work and Expression) versus Carrier (Manifestation).” In Understanding FRBR: What It Is and How It Will Affect Our Retrieval Tools, edited by Arlene G. Taylor., 117–130. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2007. Retrieved from http://escholarship.org/uc/item/60t54503.

FRBR Tests and Implementations

Davis, Ian, and Richard Newman, with Bruce D'Arcus. “Expression of Core FRBR Concepts in RDF.” 2005, updated 2009. http://vocab.org/frbr/core.html.

Doerr, Martin and Patrick LeBœuf, eds. FRBR Object-Oriented Definition and Mapping to FRBR-ER (version 0.8.1). May 2007. http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/docs/frbr_oo/frbr_docs/FRBR_oo_V0.8.1c.pdf.

eXtensible Catalog Project, Metadata Standards and Schema. www.extensiblecatalog.org/technology/metadata.

Indiana University. “Variations/FRBR: Variations as a Testbed for the FRBR Conceptual Model.” www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/vfrbr.

Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). “Scholarly Works Application Profile (SWAP).” On the JISC Digital Repository Wiki. www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Eprints_Application_Profile.

OCLC Research

FRBR Activities Page. www.oclc.org/research/activities/past/orprojects/frbr.

FictionFinder. www.oclc.org/research/activities/fictionfinder

Work Records in WorldCat. www.oclc.org/research/activities/workrecs.

xISBN (Web service). www.worldcat.org/affiliate/webservices/xisbn/app.jsp.

VTLS. FRBR Software as a Service. www.vtls.com.

RDA
Official Documents

Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA. www.rda-jsc.org.

RDA-L Discussion List. www.rda-jsc.org/rdadiscuss.html.

RDA Online

RDA Online. http://rdaonline.org.

Registry of RDA Vocabularies

National Science Digital Library Metadata Registry. http://metadataregistry.org.

RDA Analysis

Antelman, Kristin. “Identifying the Serial Work as a Bibliographic Entity.” Library Resources and Technical Services 48, no. 4 (Oct. 1, 2004): 238–255.

Coyle, Karen, and Diane Hillmann. “Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century.” D-Lib Magazine 13, no. 1/2 (Jan./Feb. 2007). www.dlib.org/dlib/january07/coyle/01coyle.html.

Library of Congress. “Testing Resource Description and Access (RDA).” www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda.

Shadle, Steve. “FRBR and Serials.” Serials Librarian 50, no. 1 & 2 (May 2006): 83–103.

RDF

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

Gradmann, Stefan. “rdfs:frbr—Towards an Implementation Model for Library Catalogs Using Semantic Web Technology.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 39, no.3/4 (2005): 63–75.

“Resource Description Framework (RDF).” World Wide Web Consortium. 2004. www.w3.org/RDF.

Linked Data

Berners-Lee, Tim. “Linked Data.” 2006. www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html.

Linked Data. http://linkeddata.org.

World Wide Web Consortium. LinkingOpenData (Linked Data Task Force). http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData.

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