2022 – UW Libraries Semantic Web Blog

April 5, 2022Crystal E. Clements No Comments

LRM/RDA/RDF at the University of Washington Libraries: A Timeline

Last updated 2022-04-05

LRM/RDA/RDF is our preferred ontology for representing RDA description sets as linked data. This post is meant to serve as a quick reference to the work we have done in this area, with links to accompanying documentation and presentations.

2016 Published Mapping of RDA Core to BIBFRAME 2.0 (mapping)

2019-2020 Received a subgrant and participated as a cohort institution in LD4P2 (project wiki). We began our work on LRM/RDA/RDF in Sinopia and expanded our earlier RDA to BIBFRAME mapping.

2020 Published expanded RDA/RDF to BIBFRAME Mapping and corresponding RML-based transformation tool. (mapping) (transform tool)

2020 Began Sinopia MAPs project to produce updated LRM/RDA/RDF application profiles for use in Sinopia (project)

2021 Presented on LD4P2 work at ALA BCM-IG (recording)

2021 Presented on local LRM/RDA/RDF projects at SWIB21 (recording)

2021 Moderated panel at BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe, “What role can RDA/RDF play in the transition to linked library data?” (question slides) (recording) (Zapounidou slides) (Dunsire blog post) (Zapounidou blog post)

2021 Launched MARC21 Bibliographic to LRM/RDA/RDF Mapping Project (project)

January 20, 2022Benjamin Riesenberg No Comments

RDA, BIBFRAME, and Modeling Bibliographic Relationships

This is the second of of two posts¹ on the panel discussion “What role can RDA/RDF play in the transition to linked library data?” which took place during the fifth annual meeting of the BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe, and featured comments from five distinguished panelists. This post briefly summarizes and discusses comments provided by Dr. Sofia Zapounidou, a librarian at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section.² She was asked to respond to the following question during the event:

RDA has been painstakingly aligned with the LRM; BIBFRAME³ has not. One of the most talked-about areas of concern is the absence of an expression entity in BIBFRAME. Could this, or other incompatibilities between RDA and BIBFRAME, have significant impacts?