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Bibframe

Resources are the things that Library.Link connects

Last updated 5 months ago

The Library.Link Network creates Bibframe resources and describes how they connect using Bibframe relationships. A resource is the most generic Bibframe entity. Key Bibframe resource types include:

  • are distinct intellectual or artistic creations

  • are resources that reflect an individual, material embodiments of works

  • are specific, individual, material embodiments of distinct instances

  • are resources associated with Works, Instances, Items, and Events. Agent types include Person, Family, Organization, Meeting, Archive, Museum, Library.

  • are significant occurrences or happenings

What is Bibframe?

is a data model used for bibliographic description. The Library of Congress began the Bibliographic Framework Initiative to make library data accessible on the open Web.

The Library.Link Network uses a modular, layered approach with and extends Bibframe for specific purposes. Extensions include:

    • Used to express classes and properties found in library data. This extension drives many of the rules in Library.Link's MARC to Bibframe transformation pipeline.

    • Used to express relationships between works, people, and other resource types. Primarily derived from MARC relator codes ().

    • Used to describe collections managed by archives

The Zepheira team at EBSCO updates these data models in partnership with Library.Link Network participants who provide feedback and propose new use cases.

Bibframe Lite Classes

  • Identifiers are strings or numbers that identiy either a unique resource or class of resources (example IDs include ISBN, ISSN, and MESH)

  • Postal Address

  • Series

Resource IDs

Name Disambiguation

Unique fingerprints are created for each person using a set of variables including the person's name. If there are any differences in names or birth/death dates then different resource IDs are created. Common differences in person resources include punctuation, capitalization, and spelling of names as well as any differences in birth or death dates.

Let's look at a few examples from the University of Melbourne's data graph.

Notice how these two resource IDs are different. To make connections between two resource IDs that refer to the same person, libraries use alternativeID relationships:

    "alternativeId": [
        "http://library.link/resource/owOOylsTw-A",
        "http://library.link/resource/wMXjZhRyEqE",
        "http://library.link/resource/G7tf8Gf8rR4",
        "http://library.link/resource/yl-DsYWNtj0",
        "http://library.link/resource/Zdwo2K-rTSc",
        "http://library.link/resource/KKaOhoxqMUs",
        "http://library.link/resource/fLrO0tOxjQ4",
        "http://library.link/resource/CJrBmTjGP-U",
        "http://library.link/resource/NZoOFvP4VSE",
        "http://library.link/resource/pjb5AsfsjWI",
        "http://library.link/resource/o3XOGsnnOXo",
        "http://library.link/resource/aBasknpzbTs",
        "http://library.link/resource/Uvn0rExLRaU",
        "http://library.link/resource/DmEIYStasXo",
        "http://library.link/resource/yglY_KN5Un0",
        "http://library.link/resource/rDqRhsc25hE",
        "http://library.link/resource/QI5tQvpl-yY",
        "http://library.link/resource/bg2AWUFS2gM"
    ],

are entities associated with a resource (Person, Family, Organization, Meeting, Archive, Museum, Library)

are loosely attached information about a resource

are organizations responsible for the documents, photos, rare books, and artifacts selected for access and preservation

are credible, curated description of a resource (People, Places, Concepts, etc.)

are groups of things regarded as having particular shared characteristics

are aggregations or gatherings of works

are terms describing the subject, aboutness, idea or notion of a resource

are when copyright registration occurs

are significant occurrences or happenings

are social groups related by birth, marriage, adoption, civil union, or similar relationship

are categories or genres that describes what a resource is (example Forms include art, books, biographies, and academic theses)

are resources that reflect an individual, material embodiments of works

are specific, individual, material embodiments of distinct instances

are lists or controlled vocabularies used to describe languages

are organizations responsible for the care of a collection of literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials, such as books, manuscripts, recordings, or films

are ordered or unordered groups of related resources

happen when people gather for a particular purpose

are organizations that hold artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, historical, or other importance

are units of people (like an institution, association, or corporate body)

are individuals (alive, dead, undead, or fictional) that are related to resources

are geographic locations

are associated with the publication, printing, distribution, issue, release or production of an instance

resources denote context for the chronological continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future

are specific subject terms describing the aboutness of a resource

are distinct intellectual or artistic creations

Each Bibframe resource in the Library.Link Network has a resource ID. For example, the fingerprint for this Person bell hooks is

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Each resource ID is generated based on a group of properties. Fingerprints for bf:Person include bf:type () bf:date and bf:name.

The author bell hooks with an LCNAF authority link and no death date:

The author bell hooks with an occupation and a death date:

Libraries also map resources to WikiData entities to cluster groups of resources. To see bell hook's alternativeIDs and WikiData mapping, view her Network level data here:

Works
Instances
Items
Agents
Events
Bibframe
Bibframe Lite
Bibframe Lite + Library
Bibframe Lite + Relation
https://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relaterm.html
Bibframe Lite + Archive
Agents
Annotations
Archives
Authorities
Categories
Collections
Concepts
Copyright Events
Events
Families
Forms
Instances
Items
Language Categories
Libraries
Lists
Meetings
Museums
Organizations
People
Places
Provider Events
Temporal
Topics
Works
NZoOFvP4VSE
https://uea.library.link/resource/NZoOFvP4VSE/
http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Person
https://unimelb.library.link/resource/ydwiTeVjoMY/
https://unimelb.library.link/resource/YW3h26ipxlo/
http://library.link/resource/ydwiTeVjoMY/feed.json
hooks, bell, 1952- (Person) - University of East Anglia Library