*Please excuse cross postings.*
The ALCTS FRBR Interest Group invites your participation at ALA Annual
Conference, at 10:30 a.m. -12:00 on Friday, June 24, 2011, at the Morial
Convention Center, Room 338.
Co-sponsored by ALA, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, and MARCIVE,
Inc.
There will be two presentations:
1)1) Functional requirements for bibliographic linked data: the FR
family and the Semantic Web (Gordon Dunsire, Scotland)
*Abstract:* This presentation describes the development of
representations of IFLA's Functional Requirements family of
bibliographic metadata models in the Semantic Web's Resource description
framework (RDF). The entities and relationships defined in Functional
requirements for bibliographic records (FRBR), Functional requirements
for authority data (FRAD), and Functional requirements for subject
authority data (FRSAD) are expressed as RDF classes and properties which
can be used as the bases of "triples" for library linked data. Issues
discussed include the assignment of identifiers, labels, definitions,
scope notes, and semantic constraints, and how the process is feeding
back into the development of a consolidated Functional requirements
model by the FRBR Review Group. The presentation also discusses the
impact of this work on related standards and the creation of linked data
from legacy bibliographic records.
*Speaker bio:* Gordon Dunsire is a freelance consultant. His previous
position was Head of the Centre for Digital Library Research at the
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. He has a background in
cataloguing and systems librarianship, and is a member of the FRBR
Review Group and ISBD/XML Study Group which are developing Semantic Web
representations of IFLA standards. He is also a member of the MODS
Editorial Committee. He is a member of the W3C Library Linked Data
Incubator Group and co-Chair of the DCMI RDA Task Group.
G2) GLIMIR (Global Library Manifestation Identifier) (Richard Greene,
OCLC)
*Abstract: *GLIMIR stands for Global Library Manifestation Identifier.
OCLC is building on its work with record matching and FRBR Work set
creation to identify and establish GLIMIR links among records for
manifestations within FRBR works. The initial implementation will be to
address parallel records and reproductions but the model can be useful
for establishing other relationships. Much of the attention given FRBR
has been at the Work and Expression level but there is a wealth of
information within bibliographic records that can be utilized to
establish relationships between manifestations. The presentation will
describe the work to date on GLIMIR, plans for implementation,
implications for FRBR Work sets, and some future possibilities.
*Speaker bio:*Rich Greene is a Senior Consulting Database Specialist at
OCLC working in the Batch Services Division. Prior to OCLC, Rich was a
cataloger at the State Library of Ohio for several years. In his 30+
years at OCLC, Rich has also worked in quality control and was
instrumental in the implementation of AACR2, batchload, enhance,
duplicate detection and resolution, CJK and microenhancer and Connexion
implementations, as well as representing OCLC at MARBI for more than 30
years. Rich was the founder and first chair of the ALCTS FRBR IG.