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)