Nancy Fallgren
Technical Services Division
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Presentation to MARC Formats Transition Interest Group
ALA Midwinter 2015
Per LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic
Control, U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee, and
BIBFRAME report
 Web based
 Rule agnostic
 Flexible
 Extensible
 Useful beyond the bibliographic cataloging community
 Broadly understandable
 Usable
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Not based on an existing standard
Use the descriptive standards experts
have already developed
Connect equivalent data across
descriptive standards
Flex with changes to descriptive
standards
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Local
Schemas
Dublin
Core
BIBFRAME Core
Vocabulary
PressOO
Titles
Agents
Subjects
Identifiers
Dates
...
RDA
EAD
VRA
. . .
MODS
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Work Data
preferredTitleForTheWork
dateOfWork
creator
marc:650_2ax
dissertationOrThesisInformation
+ Add data elements
Expression Data
languageOfTheContent
summarizationOfTheContent
contributor
+ Add data elements
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BF Work
Work Data
bf:title
rdaw:preferredTitleForTheWork
bf:date
rdaw:dateOfWork
bf:creator
rdaw:creator
bf:subject
rdaw:dissertationOrThesisInformation
marc:650_2ax
rdaw:dissertationOrThesisInformation
bf:language
+ Add data elements
bf:description
BF Instance
bf:contributor
Expression Data
rdae:languageOfTheContent
rdae:summarizationOfTheContent
rdae:contributor
+ Add data elements
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 Use BF core vocabulary drafted by Zepheira
 Add from PCC RDA BIBCO Standard Record
Metadata Application Profile and CONSER
Standard Record
 Map to Zepheira’s BF core
 Map to RDA/RDF constrained vocabulary
 Review
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 Review and refine vocabulary with Zepheira
 Share BF Core v.1 plus observations
 BIBFRAME community
 PCC
 JSC for Development of RDA
 Test mapping/conversion of legacy metadata
 Test generation of new bibliographic data
 Collaborating with Jackie Shieh of George
Washington University
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Marshall W. Nirenberg resources at NLM
 Profiles in Science web resource, including
narrative text, digitized photos, and digitized texts
 Manuscript Collection
 Nobel Prize
 Article citations
Legacy data mapping and conversion
 Metadata in MARC, Medline XML, Profiles XML,
Dublin Core
 Convert descriptive schemes to RDF
 Map descriptive schemes to BF core vocabulary
Share existing metadata with OCLC
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Work with Zepheira to create an RDA profile for
its Scribe tool
 Monographs
 UI labels for BF core vocabulary use RDA
terminology
 Catalogers add RDA extensions from RDA/RDF
registry as needed
 What if there is no RDA/RDF element?
 BF mapping takes place under the hood
Parallel testing with LC in Spring 2015
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