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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Leeds have joined the SCONUL UK Open Bibliographic Metadata Group and are working with other institutions on a UK BlueCore instance that will move UK libraries forward to a shared open metadata ecosystem & infrastructure with richer data, better connections, & less duplication of effort #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Leeds want to make connections between their collections described in different systems across cultural heritage, art, archival, & bibliographic resources - they are using the Linked Art Data Model linked.art/model/intro/ #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Custodial history and other copy-specific information can be more clearly described when using the LD4Libraries RMAG templates at Item Level #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

BIBFRAME enables relationships to be more clearly stated, and copy-specific information can be recorded at the Item Level #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Now Alison Hazelaaar and Kim Taylor form @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social speak about the @exlibrisclvt.bsky.social Linked Open Data Working Group to explore the potential of #BIBFRAME & using #WIKIDATA to complement NACO. #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

WorldCat Entities from @oclc.org envisages detailed Entity Info Cards in Discovery - including biographical data, images and broader web resources, so users can connect library collections to other resources elsewhere via the Knowledge Graph #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Connecting Entities together creates a Knowledge Graph enabling users to see relationships that they wouldn't otherwise be aware of - and that cannot be adequately expressed in traditionally library catalogues (ie MARC environment) #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Standardising the Entity Record for a Person - covering Key Information, Significant Dates and various Characteristics, plus Identifiers such as @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social & Related Entities: Person, Places, Works, Organizations #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Sarah Glaccum at Uni of Southampton Library details a project to explore Linked Data with @oclc.org Meridian - they were granted access to Meridian for a month - data from WMS was exported into a spreadsheet which was added to by API as well as manually #RLUKDSF

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Brandeis has developed a roadmap for implementation: they are currently in the exploration phase, training staff in RDF concepts and Sinopia before launching a pilot phase where they will identify a specific collection for BIBFRAME cataloguing #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

BIBFRAME en español began in 2019 when Tim was asked to present a workshop on BIBFRAME in Spanish in Mexico City. More recently native Spanish speakers have come onboard to help develop modular training content with a train-the-trainer ethos. Idea is to remove the language barrier #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Implementation should be phased covering: - needs assessment and planning inc. skills audit & funding - curriculum development inc. local language materials - training delivery inc. blended delivery & mentoring - monitoring & scaling inc. policy advocacy & competency assessment #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Wada Ibrahim proposes a tiered capacity building framework with 3 segments Foundation, Intermediate & Advanced. - The Foundation level addresses an introduction to Linked Data & the semantic web - the core concepts of BIBFRAME and its differences to MARC #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Metadata Maker has 9 modules and supports diacritics and transliteration, with dropdown menus for controlled vocabularies, & the ability to search authority files & embed URIs #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

This also has to work at scale for 3000 records and their access points - using Python to better interrogate the LC Name Authority File and reconcile entities as access points #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

What happens when Linked Data stops being a project & becomes the way cataloguers work every day? Maintenance & converting external data is easier but clustering can go wrong when converting from MARC21 Metadata works differently in the new system; cataloguers have to make clear choices #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Training and feedback helped influence the build of the system - 65 cataloguers were involved in the development process, this helped them feel they had ownership over the change and of the new system #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Clarivate have learnt that BIBFRAME adoption by libraries will be contingent on the them seeing the added value so that they can justify the change to workflows and trust that adoption is worth the investment #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

The biggest challenge is not building a BIBFRAME Editor but establishing the governance and workflows - how do you teach staff to use the tools you need, what workflows do you need, and what are the policy decisions required? #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

BIBFRAME provides the foundation but there are semantic gaps when considering Iranian music, so cultural extensions are needed to preserve interoperability #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

A domain-specific model including the structure of performance for Iranian music, includes Iranian terminology and new classes and specialised relationships that relate to the improvisational and oral tradition of the traditional music of Iran #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Avazes: It includes five secondary vocal modes, or avazes (such as Dashti and Abu-Ata). The BIBFRAME model Work, Instance, Item does not map directly to the Radif of Iranian music - a modal layer is required #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

KCR5 has been mapped to official RDA and BIBFRAME Entities and Properties accounting for model discrepancies such as RDA's WEMI stack and BIBFRAME's WII stack #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

"Mapping KCR5 as content rules to BIBFRAME" with Mihwa Lee, Kongju National University, Jee-Hyun Rho, Pusan National University, & Eun-Ju Lee, Dong-eui University. The necessity of interoperability between conceptual models and cataloguing rules in Korea #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

National Library of Finland opted for :hasItemAction as Action is the common starting point - semantics is in the data not the model, it is flexible & scalable, and gives Actions as Entities rather than Notes. #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

SPA modelling options in BIBFRAME include creating properties for :hasRetentionPolicy :isPartOfDistributedCollection :hasPreservatioActivity :hasSPAStatement or :hasItemAction #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

SPA terminology has 6 actions - a mix of declarative, analytical and operational actions - this poses a challenge when modelling as Linked Data #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

The divergence between RDA's WEMI model (Work, Expression, Manifestation, Item) and BIBFRAME's Work, Instance, Item model requires an alignment via property chains using OWL (Web Ontology Language) #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

One RDA element can map to a whole chain of BIBFRAME elements - e.g. an 'editor person' is a bf:agent bf:Person with bf:role of 'editor person' #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

The RSC has on its Roadmap to develop further mappings with BIBFRAME - There are Maps and Alignments already available in the RDA Registry maintained by the RSC's Technical Working Group, and an RDA to MARC21 map maintained by the RDA/MARC21 Alignment Group #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

The Complete way = an Aggregating Work with an Aggregator Agent - connevted to Aggregate Instance with the BIBFRAME property instanceOf Cannot be used for Diachronic Aggregates #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

2 methods - Lean and Complete. The Lean way = an Aggregate Manifestation Instance contains information related to the whole Aggregate Needs a new subclass of Instance called Aggregate in BIBFRAME #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The mapping from FOLIO to BIBFRAME is produced using 2 markdown tables in the Skills folder. This enable the Agent to carry FOLIO Instance and Holdings JSON into BIBFRAME Work and Instance JSON-LD, field by field. There is no transformation script to maintain. #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

An example tech services workflow using an AI agent (Claude code) to query the FOLIO Inventory API and retrieve a record then transform it into a Work and Instance in BIBFRAME RDF ready for human approval before addition to the Blue Core MVP #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

In BIBFRAME this supports display of preferred variants of Names in multiple scripts #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

This includes providing variant Name Authority data in vernacular scripts #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Language encoding is supported in BIBFRAME editor Marva as xml:lang It can be brought into MARC via subfield $7 #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Library of Congress implemented BCP47 using the shortest language code available and retaining script designations internally, but when the code is published script designation will be inferred. LoC doesn't use regional designations. #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

BIBFRAME migration required assess the existing database and establish rules and policies for transformation. Staff required training to learn how to catalogue with the new BIBFRAME structure and prepare for data migration and transformation. #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The Polymath Virtual Library environment necessarily straddles multiple standards in a hybrid environment of coexistence of different metadata schemas and ontologes. #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The technical infrastructure of the Polymath Virtual Library relies on MARC21, Dublin Core, and MODS from METS files This needed to be transformed into 'Modern Marc' incorporating URIs as Linked Data elements to enable connections with Europeana & Wikidata #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

1 year later and the environment has had to evolve to take into consideration: - Rare books and non-print resources - Variable metadata quality - The need to 'copy catalogue' into local systems Partners are starting to engage more meaningfully & think about local BIBFRAME adoption #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The new infrastructure takes data from 3 sources into a MARC to BIBFRAME conversion process. There is a single merged 'record' in the BIBFRAME database. Metadata can then be exported in MARC to libraries and/or discovery layers #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Moving to BIBFRAME from MARC meant a brand new system. The Trove Ecosystem is complex - with data transfer across stakeholders and applications. All staff involved in running and using this infrastructure need to understand BIBFRAME #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Restrictions on metadata sharing will be challenging as libraries move to linked open data & connect library data to the open web - technical development is focussed on open metadata 'pools' but the majority of library metadata hasn't been leveraged because it hasn't been asserted as open! #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

But what about records 'modified' by an agency that doesn't support CC0? (040$d) - do they 'own' the metadata even if it started / was originally created by an agency that does support CC0 (040$a) - no way of knowing what changes the modifying agency actually made! #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

University of Alberta Library has begun to develop an open metadata policy and open metadata sharing framework. "The vast majority of metadata is not copyrightable - but in the case of some discrete record sets, a CC BY NC SA 4.0 License will apply" #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The context of #OpenMetadata - since the formation of online catalogues, resource description standards have been built on supporting interchange and open sharing of data - so much of the infrastructure for resource description hinges on the ability to openly share metadata #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

OCLC argue that we don't need a 'new pool of data' for BIBFRAME - we should use the existing data in WorldCat - a database of collective knowledge that has been curated by librarians over decades. #bfwe2026

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

WorldCat has been "remodelled as BIBFRAME" with new ingest pipelines, without disrupting existing MARC workflows. #bfwe2026

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