[TopicMapsInLIS] Variations/FRBR project relases FRBR XML Schemas

[Liliana Melgar E.]

Hi all,

I wanted to call your attention to this initiative below, regarding
the FRBRization of library catalogs. Hopefully it will include Topic
Maps in their exploration of other possible representations.

Greetings,

Liliana Melgar


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From: Riley, Jenn <jenlrile at indiana.edu>
Date: 2010/3/15
Subject: [OLAC-L] Variations/FRBR project relases FRBR XML Schemas
To: OLAC-L at oclc.org


The Variations/FRBR project at Indiana University (http://vfrbr.info)
is pleased to announce the release of an initial set of XML Schemas
for the encoding of FRBRized bibliographic data. The Variations/FRBR
project aims to provide a concrete testbed for the FRBR conceptual
model, and these XML Schemas represent one step towards that goal by
prescribing a concrete data format that instantiates the conceptual
model. Our project has been watching recent work to represent the
FRBR-based Resource Description and Access (RDA) element vocabulary in
RDF; however, due to the fact that this work represents RDA data
rather than FRBR data directly, and that much metadata work in
libraries currently (though perhaps not permanently) operates in an
XML rather than an RDF environment, we concluded an XML-based format
for FRBR data directly was needed at this time. We view XML conforming
to these Schemas to be one possible external representation of
FRBRized data, and will be exploring other representations (including
RDF) in the future. We define "implementing FRBR," as the conceptual
models described in the companion FRBR and FRAD reports; at this time
we are not actively working on the model defined in the draft FRSAD
report. Perhaps the most notable feature of the Variations/FRBR XML
Schemas is their existence at three "levels": frbr, which embodies
faithfully only those features defined by the FRBR and FRAD reports;
efrbr, which adds additional features we hope will make the data
format more "useful"; and vfrbr, which both contracts and extends the
FRBR and FRAD models to create a data representation optimized for the
description of musical materials and we hope provides a model for
other domain-specific applications of FRBR.

A User Guide with details on the structure of the Schemas and how they
relate to one another may be found at
http://vfrbr.info/schemas/1.0/UserGuide.pdf, and links to all Schemas
and documentation may be found at http://vfrbr.info/schemas/1.0. We
hope this Schema release will lead to further discussion of FRBR
implementation issues within the community. Comments and questions on
the Variations/FRBR Schema release may be sent to
vfrbr at dlib.indiana.edu.

Variations/FRBR is generously funded through a National Leadership
Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
<http://www.imls.gov>.

(And a big kudos goes to the V/FRBR project team:
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/vfrbr/people/index.shtml. Thanks
to all of you, and especially to Paul, Mark, and Ilias.)

Jenn

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Jenn Riley
Metadata Librarian
Digital Library Program
Indiana University - Bloomington
Wells Library W501
(812) 856-5759
www.dlib.indiana.edu

Inquiring Librarian blog: www.inquiringlibrarian.blogspot.com




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Liliana Melgar
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