Initiated by the Library of Congress, BIBFRAME provides a foundation for the future of bibliographic description, both on the web, and in the broader networked world that is grounded in Linked Data techniques. This Update Forum held on 22 January 2024 featured BIBFRAME activities of two institutions: ExLibris and OCLC. ExLibris described their plans for using BIBFRAME linked data as defined by the Library of Congress with their system, Alma. And OCLC followed with developments underway for supporting libraries that will be using BIBFRAME.

The video recording and the slides are online.

Dans le cadre du programme Transition bibliographique, l’objectif de l’ontologie RDA-FR est d’exprimer avec les technologies du web sémantique les entités, leurs attributs et leurs relations définies par le code de catalogage RDA-FR en conformité avec le modèle international IFLA LRM.

Les premiers éléments de l’ontologie RDA-FR concernant les ressources continues viennent d’être publiés en version bêta : voir https://rdafr.fr/release-notes.html#v0.3.0.
L’ontologie rend compte des attributs de l’Oeuvre de ressource continue, sous-classe de l’entité Oeuvre, ainsi que de toutes les relations entre une Oeuvre de ressource continue et une autre oeuvre (qui peut ou non être de ressource continue).

The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Task Group on Developing Guidelines for Using ISO 639-3 Language Codes for Library Cataloging was charged with developing a set of guidelines for how to use ISO 639-3 language codes in MARC records. These guidelines were approved by the PCC on November 22, 2022. Most of the test recommendations were carried over. The guidelines continue to recommend only using ISO 639-3 language codes in addition to MARC language codes in shared cataloging in order to support interoperability.

The ISBD Review Group and the ISBD for Manifestation Task Force held an online introductory meeting on 8 February 2024 with participants from other IFLA bodies, Resource Description and Access (RDA), MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) and ISSN International Centre, in order to facilitate the start of the expert review phase of the ISBD for Manifestation. This phase will be ending by mid-May 2024, and will be followed by an official worldwide review phase from mid-May to mid-July. A webinar for all interested colleagues before starting the review will be held at the end of April 2024.

Have a look at the ISBD for Manifestation website.

Un précédent dossier en 2017 donnait déjà à voir l’importance des identifiants, les usages d’IdRef hors de l’Abes, et la complémentarité homme/machine dans les tâches de liage des ressources documentaires à des notices d’autorité. En 2023, en dressant les 6 points forts de l’Abes, l’évaluation du Haut Conseil de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur (Hcéres) saluait « la qualité et la pertinence de l’offre de services, en particulier des référentiels, dont IdRef ».

The ISBD for Manifestation Task Force can now present a first draft of the ISBD for Manifestation (ISBDM) under the form of an online tool.

The ISBDM review phase 1 started already in November 2023 with an ISBD Review Group review. The review will now continue with phase 2, which is an “expert review” where experts from other IFLA bodies, RDA, MAC, and ISSN are invited. Phase 2 will start with an online introductory meeting on 8 February, at 3-5 PM (Paris time) to which 2-4 ISSN Review Group experts are invited.

Please find the ISBDM review phase plan: https://www.ifla.org/g/isbd-rg/isbd-for-manifestation-isbdm/.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced publication of its newest standard, ANSI/NISO Z39.105-2023, Content Profile/Linked Document (CP/LD).

For most disciplines, the journal article remains the primary means of communicating the outputs of scholarly research. As a result, publishing workflows have been largely based on large XML document models. This standard is an application of HTML and JSON-LD to create semantic relationships between content and data elements in scholarly publishing to express self-describing, machine-actionable content for reuse and interchange of scholarly research information.

As the first standard STA community platform, the future relevant regulations for the German-speaking area were published on 1 August 2023:RDA DACH  (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). This is an adaptation of the international standard  Resource Description & Access (RDA) for the German-speaking area. These regulations will be gradually developed by experts from a wide range of disciplines and supplemented in the coming months. Training for newcomers will follow at a later date.

Take a look at the first applications of the STA platform.

Als erster Standard der STA-Plattform wurde am 1. August das künftig maßgebliche Erschließungsregelwerk für den deutschsprachigen Raum veröffentlicht: RDA DACH. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine Adaption des internationalen Standards Resource Description & Access (RDA) für den DACH-Raum. Diese Regelungen werden sukzessive durch Expert innen aus unterschiedlichsten Sparten erarbeitet und in den kommenden Wochen und Monaten ergänzt.

Werfen Sie einen Blick auf die ersten Anwendungen der STA-Plattform.