Hello Ingrid,
Great to hear of your interesting project work.
Since you're covering a lot of ground I have worked on recently (CRM, FRBRoo,
EDM, LIDO...) I wanted to mention a couple of other things you might want to
look at:
1. Names:
FOAF is alright if you are thinking of data about real people ("natural
person") but there are 2 other aspects to consider - "personas" (public
identities which may be "real names" but also pseudonyms, pen names, stage
names etc.) and "presentations" (textual variations known to represent the same
"persona", e.g. J. R. R. Tolkien versus John Tolkien).
Some of these questions are discussed in...
http://www.bic.org.uk/files/pdfs/namenumbers.pdf and
http://www.interparty.org/presentations/functional_requirements.ppt and
http://www.interparty.org/presentations/metadata.ppt
...but primarily the place to look is http://www.isni.org/ as this implements
the ideas.
2. Publisher data:
It might be worth having a look at ONIX 3.0 which has authoritative mappings
("crosswalks") with MARC21 already (see
http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2012/05-21.html and also
http://www.doi.org/VMF/documents/VocabularyMappingFrameworkIntroductionV1.0%28091212%29.pdf
for the controlled vocabularies aspects).
3. Ontologies:
Finally, although maybe your heard about these things already, I'll just
mention that parallel to CIDOC-CRM and FRBRoo, there is another ontology used
in the commercial world based on the <indecs> project that may be worth a
look...
http://www.doi.org/topics/indecs/indecs_framework_2000.pdf - note it is hosted
at DOI as it forms the data model for DOI registration metadata.
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/activities/frbr/frbr-workshop/presentations/050502_Godfrey_Rust_FRBR_presentation.ppt
- more details on modelling issues - extremely comprehensive...
Best wishes and thanks again,
Michael Hopwood
Linked Heritage Project Lead
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