The local in the global: universal
bibliographic control from the
bottom up
Gordon Dunsire and Mirna Willer
Presented to Session 86 — Universal Bibliographic
Control in the Digital Age: Golden Opportunity or
Paradise Lost?
IFLA WLIC, 18 August 2014, Lyon, France
Universal
Bibliographic
Control
Acting locally
Thinking globally
KOS++
FR: Functional ISBD: International Standard
BIBFRAME:
Bibliographic Requirements Bibliographic Description
BibO: Framework DC: Dublin Core
RDA: Resource
Bibliographic CRM: Conceptual MARC21 Description schema.org
Ontology
Reference Model
and Access UNIMARC
Confusing
tongues?
RDF
Say what
we mean
Granularities and overlaps
Property label in English
Granularity
RDA: has place of publication
Fine
ISBD: has place of publication, production,
distribution
Medium
BIBFRAME: Place, name, and/or date information
relating to the publication, printing, distribution,
issue, release, or production instance
Coarse
Granularity of “Place”
Aggregation of “Place” +
other elements
Black box
!
Output
!
Input
?
La
boîte
bibliographique
magique
?
We do not need to know what goes on inside
Subject
Predicate/property
This resource has place of publication (RDA)
Object
"Zagreb"
ex:Resource1 rdam:P30088
Schema Translator
"Zagreb"
!
?
?
!
La
boîte
bibliographique
magique
Subject
Predicate/property
This resource has place of publication, production,
distribution (ISBD)
ex:Resource1 isbdu:P1016
Object
"Zagreb"
"Zagreb"
Subject
This resource
ex:Resource1
Predicate/property
Object
has frequency of issue … (UNIMARC) “daily"
unimarc:U110__a1
unimarccf:h
Term Translator
La
? boîte
!
bibliographique
magique
!
?
Subject
This resource
Predicate/property
has frequency of issue … (UNIMARC)
Object
“daily"
ex:Resource1
unimarc:U110__a1
rdaf:1010
Subject
Predicate
ex:Resource1
ex:Resource1
ex:Resource1
isbd:P1016 “Zagreb"
isbd:P1017 "Hrvatsko knjižničarsko društvo"
isbd:P1018 “2012”
Statement Maker
?
!
?
Object
La
boîte
bibliographique
magique
Subject
ex:Resource1
!
Predicate Object
isbd:P1162 "Zagreb : Hrvatsko knjižničarsko
društvo, 2012"
Predicate Object
isbd:P1162 "Zagreb : Hrvatsko knjižničarsko
društvo, 2012"
Statement Breaker
?
Subject
ex:Resource1
!
La
boîte
bibliographique
magique
!
?
Subject
ex:Resource1
Predicate Object
isbd:P1016 “Zagreb"
ex:Resource1
ex:Resource1
isbd:P1017 "Hrvatsko knjižničarsko društvo"
isbd:P1018 “2012”
Soup of triples
Record maker
?
? La
!
boîte
bibliographique
magique
!
Reconstituted
ingredient
Record breaker
?
! La
boîte
bibliographique
magique
?
!
Magic?
!
?
? !
? ! ? !
!
Act locally
! ?
? !
?
?
!
Or Technique?
Think globally
Merci!