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IFLA in RDF (+ RDA)

IFLA in RDF (+ RDA). Gordon Dunsire Chair, IFLA Namespaces Technical Group; Chair-Elect, JSC/RDA Lightning presentation to NISO Bibliographic Roadmap meeting, April 15-16, Baltimore, MD, USA. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.

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IFLA in RDF (+ RDA)

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  1. IFLA in RDF (+ RDA) Gordon Dunsire Chair, IFLA Namespaces Technical Group; Chair-Elect, JSC/RDA Lightning presentation to NISO Bibliographic Roadmap meeting, April 15-16, Baltimore, MD, USA

  2. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions • Maintaining bibliographic standards for over 40 years • International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) • Bibliographic description content standard • UNIMARC (ISO 2709) • Record format (Bibliographic, Authorities) • Functional Requirements family • FRBR, FRAD, FRSAD • Conceptual models based on user tasks • Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloguing (MulDiCat) • 26 languages for multilingual cataloguing environment

  3. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions • Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC) • Used world-wide • RDF representations developed since 2009 • Open Metadata Registry used for RDF element sets and value vocabularies

  4. Current status of vocabularies * Partial, under construction

  5. Maps • Maps based on “alignments” • Often kinda-sameAs • Mostly out-of-date • Synchronization between “the Standard” and the RDF representation • Contextual documentation vs encapsulated semantics • Expense? • Protocols between different maintenance organizations difficult to develop

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