BIBFLOW Project: Serials (Bibliographic & Holdings) Xiaoli Li University of California Davis June 27, 2015 Holdings Information Forum

BIBFLOW Project: Serials (Bibliographic & Holdings)

Xiaoli Li University of California Davis

June 27, 2015Holdings Information Forum

Access available handouts at ala.15.ala.org/sessions/handouts.

Topics

• Brief Introduction to BIBFLOW

• Serial records conversion– What works; what does not

• Exploration with holdings and items

• Next steps for BIBFLOW

BIBFLOW IN A NUTSHELLPart I


What Is the BIBFLOW Project?

• Is a 2-year project of the UC Davis University Library and Zepheira, funded by Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (May 2014 – April 2016)

• Its official title is “Reinventing Cataloging: Models for the Future of Library Operations”

• Is a research project that will address questions like “What impact will adoption of BIBFRAME on technical services workflows in an academic library”?– BIBFLOW = BIBframe + workFLOW

• One of the major deliverables is a roadmap that can help library community transition cataloging work to a linked data/BIBFRAME native ecosystem


Where Are We?

• Started to make changes to Kauli-OLE system so we can test the creation of BIBFRAME description using a Zepheira Scribe-like interface – Working on print monographs

• Began to test conversion of MARC records using LC’s MARC to BIBFRAME Transformation Service


Program OLE for BIBFRAME

SERIAL RECORDS: MARC TO BIBFRAME LC’S MARC TO BIBFRAME TRANSFORMATION SERVICE

Part II


Sample Serial Records Selected • Records created following different cataloging

rules: pre-AACR2, AACR2, RDA

• Records contains 76x-785 fields

• Records contains non-Roman scripts (has not analyzed the results yet)

• Records for different formats (has not analyzed the results yet)


How Can You Tell It’s for a Serial Work?

Each BIBFRAME description will have the following two statements that indicate it’s for a serial work:


Linked ISSN is part of Work

ISSN is part of Instance

Should “bf:identifierAssigner” appear under both Linked ISSN and ISSN?

Should Linked ISSN be part of Work, Instance, or what?

ISSN


Title Fields: 2xx

210

245

222


BIBFRAME Transformation Specifications

780 Field


BIBFRAME Transformation Specifications

785 Field



776 Field (other physical format)


777 Field (issued with)


? Latest Entry Record

247 ≠ Instance


Jan. 1976 is the part of the numbering for the first issue. It is not the last issue.

? Pre-AACR2 Record


“856 41” appears under Annotation. Should it be treated as an instance of the same work?

? Composite Record

EXPLORE HOLDINGS AND ITEMSPart III


Holdings Information• HeldMaterial is currently a subclass of Annotation


Item Information• HeldItem is currently a subclass of HeldMaterial


LC’s BIBFRAME Item Proposal

http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/docs/pdf/bf-itemproposal-6-24-2015.pdf

• HeldMaterial

• Item would is not long part of Annotation


Example* of Holding Statement (BF Item Proposal)• # Summary holdings for the serial (compound item)• <http://bibframe.example.org/item/item1>

a bf:Item ; bf:hasComponent <http://bibframe.example.org/item/item2> ; bf:hasComponent <http://bibframe.example.org/item/item3> ; bf:hasComponent <http://bibframe.example.org/item/item4> ; bf:hasComponent <http://bibframe.example.org/item/item5> ; bf:hasComponent <http://bibframe.example.org/item/item6> ; bf:heldBy [ a bf:Organization ; rdfs:label "NjP" ; bf:holdingOrganization <http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/organizations/njp> . ] ;

bf:subLocation "rcppa" ; # Offsite storage location

bf:enumerationAndChronology "Ano I, no. 1 (julho 1987)-Ano X, no. 360" ;

bf:hasNote [ a bf:Note ; rdf:value "DESIGNATOR: no." . ] *Modified based on the information posted by Tim Thompson on BIBFRAME listserv.

http://bibframe.example.org/item/item1






http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/organizations/njp


Example (Cont’d) – Item Information


Reactions to the BF Item Proposal (so far)

• How about other information we use to holdings record? For example:– publication status– binding instruction– Non-public staff note

• Should bf:enumerationAndChronology be split into two separate properties?

• Need special subtypes of bf:Note for recording piece counts on compound items, and for serial designators and "lacks" statements.

• …


Next Steps for BIBFLOW • will continue to analyze MARC to BIBFRAME conversion

results

• will compare LC conversation tool with others such as, MarcEdit MARCNext and Zepheira’s Pipeline

• will work on profiling for serials and creating user interface for catalogers to input BIBFRAME description

• will continue to evaluate BF Item proposal

• will post information on the BIBFLOW project site as we proceed: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/bibflow/. Please check out the page periodically and give us your feedback.

http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/bibflow/

http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/bibflow/


“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

Thank you!

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BIBFLOW Project: Serials (Bibliographic & Holdings) Xiaoli Li University of California Davis June 27, 2015 Holdings Information Forum