Understanding the BIBFRAME Model and Vocabulary

$250.00

Dates: May 5 - June 1

Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs

This course focuses on learning the basic principles of BIBFRAME 2.0, the bibliographic framework and vocabulary that is a likely replacement for MARC. Students will become familiar with the BIBFRAME model and principles that are applicable to practical application of cataloging and metadata and will create BIBFRAME records in the BIBFRAME Editor. A look at future developments will be included, including those that are part of the Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project.

Course Objectives and Goals

By the end of the course students will:

  • Understand the development of BIBFRAME and its importance to modern data practices including linked data
  • Develop a firm understanding of the BIBFRAME model and its relationship to the FRBR Work-Expression-Manifestation-Item (WEMI) model
  • Analyze MARC, MARC/BIBFRAME, BIBFRAME/XML, and BIBFRAME/Turtle records, understanding similarities and differences
  • Create BIBFRAME records using the BIBFRAME Editor and understand resources and tools for working with and creating BIBFRAME records.
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Credits

1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs

Registration dates

We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment.

Course Description

This course focuses on learning the basic principles of BIBFRAME 2.0, the bibliographic framework and vocabulary that is a likely replacement for MARC. Students will become familiar with the BIBFRAME model and principles that are applicable to practical application of cataloging and metadata and will create BIBFRAME records in the BIBFRAME Editor. A look at future developments will be included, including those that are part of the Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project.

Course Objectives and Goals

By the end of the course students will:

  • Understand the development of BIBFRAME and its importance to modern data practices including linked data
  • Develop a firm understanding of the BIBFRAME model and its relationship to the FRBR Work-Expression-Manifestation-Item (WEMI) model
  • Analyze MARC, MARC/BIBFRAME, BIBFRAME/XML, and BIBFRAME/Turtle records, understanding similarities and differences
  • Create BIBFRAME records using the BIBFRAME Editor and understand resources and tools for working with and creating BIBFRAME records.

Robin Fay

Robin Fay is a Cataloging/Metadata Librarian and Trainer who has worked with academic, public, community college libraries and multistate consortias on cataloging and metadata projects, among those are the Orbis Cascade Alliance, the University System of Georgia, and SkillsCommon. Robin is both a practitioner with over 10 years of cataloging and a trainer. She is a frequent guest on WREK’s Lost in the Stacks discussing metadata and semantic web topics. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia; a MLIS from the University of South Carolina; certificates in Project Management (University of Georgia), and a Yellow Belt in Six Sigma (a quality and processes control standard). Her book Semantic Web Technologies and Social Searching for Librarians was published in 2012.

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