Re: BIBFRAME and schema.org

Thanks Karen for posting this to the list.  Travelling got in the way of
me ensuring that it was published here and on the BIBFRAME list at about
the same time.

~Richard.

On 27/06/2013 11:59, "Karen Coyle" <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:

>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 ŒBib Extensions¹ 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
>kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
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>
>

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