BIBFRAME

Started by the Library of Congress, BIBFRAME provides the foundation for the future of bibliographic description that happens on the web and in the networked world. Apart from being the substitute of MARC, BIBFRAME serves as a general model to express and connect bibliographic data. Another central focus of the initiative will be to determine a transition path from MARC21 formats while preserving a robust data exchange that has supported resource sharing and cataloging cost savings in recent decades.

• BIBFRAME: website of BIBFRAME hold by the Library of Congress.
• BIBFRAME: Why? What? Who? (Catalan translation) Dissemination paper about the concept proposed by BIBFRAME.
• Què és el BIBFRAME: Post in the blog of the Biblioteca de Catalunya explaining the BIBFRAME model.
• Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data: Linked Data Model and Supporting Services [PDF, 2.91 MB] (November 21, 2012) A document by Zepheira, the company which is developing BIBFRAME together with the Library of Congress.
• Common Ground: Exploring Compatibilities Between the Linked Data Models of the Library of Congress and OCLC A summary on the linked data initiatives of the Library of Congress (BIBFRAME as a future data exchange model) and OCLC (it is working to improve linked data for web resources and presents Schema.org as a common place between the language of bibliographic description from professionals and the information-seeking public).