BIBFRAME and schema.org

All,

If you are on the BIBFRAME list you will have seen a message from Jean 
Godby with a link to her paper:

Godby, Carol Jean. 2013. The Relationship between BIBFRAME and the 
Schema.org ‘Bib Extensions’ Model: A Working Paper. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC 
Research. 
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2013/2013-05.pdf.

This 41 page(!) paper is an excellent analysis of the possible 
relationship between BIBFRAME and schema.org. This is a topic which we 
have not discussed directly in this group, and I would like to propose 
that we could merge this discussion with our consideration of 
"instanceOf" and "has Instance" -- which we decided to push to this list 
at the end of our last webex meeting on Tuesday, June 25.

The paper presents the alignment of schema.org and FRBR as a primary 
goal of this group [1]. I take exception to that, as may others. But I 
believe that the underlying question is the coordination of BIBFRAME and 
schema.org, and that should be discussed first. There are obvious 
benefits to the library community to bringing these two into alignment, 
but we should also discuss whether we can do so without silo-ing library 
data once again.

kc

[1] "The main objective of the redesign is to improve the representation 
of the FRBR hierarchy using concepts already defined in Schema.org. 
Since the application of the FRBR hierarchy requires the association of 
descriptions with differing degrees of abstraction, the schemaBibEx 
community has also proposed the properties hasInstance and isInstanceOf, 
whose semantics resemble the BIBFRAME properties with the same names." 
(Godby, p. 11)
-- 
Karen Coyle
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Received on Thursday, 27 June 2013 15:59:45 UTC