Presented at the seminar Libraries and the Semantic Web: the role of International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 25 Feb 2011

1. The ISBD/XML Study Group background, activities, plansMirna Willer, University of Zadar, HRISBD/XML SG Chairmwiller@unizd.hr Libraries and the Semantic Web: the role of International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) Workshop Cataloguing and Indexing Group Scotland 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 1

2. http://www.slainte.org.uk/events/EvntShow.cfm?uEventID=2578 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 2

3. Background, activities, plans 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh ISBD/XML Study Group IFLA Congress, Quebec , Canada 2008: Cataloguing Section. ISBD Review Group’s Material Designations Study Group recommended to develop an XML schema for ISBD, and to start researching into "reviewing ISBD concepts and the standard itself by the application of web technologies, and eventually of evolving the standard into a tool open to the Semantic Web technologies and services“  The 2-year project proposed by the Study Group was accepted in 2008 by the IFLA Professional Board; 3rd year accepted (2011) 3

5. the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI),

6. IEEE Learning Object Metadata (IEEE LOM), and

7. W3C.Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Recommended activities that would provide benefits including the library community getting 4

8. Background, activities, plans 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh "a metadata standard that is compatible with the Web Architecture and that is fully interoperable with other Semantic Web initiatives“ DCMI RDA Task Group: to investigate options for representing bibliographic concepts and metadata in Resource Description Framework (RDF), the data model of the Semantic Web W3C. 5

10. http://www.ifla.org/en/node/1795 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 7

12. IFLA Governing Board and Professional Committee, IFLA Conference, 2010

13. IFLA Bibliographic Standards Program (Core Activity) to oversee bibliographic standards activities within IFLA11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 8

14. Background, activities, plans The main goals of the ISBD/XML SG’s project were: to build a consensus on the raison d'être of moving the ISBD into the web environment, and define possible uses of such a product, to develop ISBDXML schema, to ensure the interoperability of the product with similar ones such as MARC/DCXML schemas, at least at the conceptual level, within the current Semantic Web technologies and services, to liaise with relevant constituencies in the field, and to propose further development of software tools and services. 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 9

15. Background, activities, plans Anticipated results of the project were primarily the (re)positioning of the IFLA standard and its values of enabling provision and (re)use of authoritative structured bibliographic information in the Internet environment. The anticipated beneficiaries and stakeholders will be all interested in producing/sharing/(re)using authoritative bibliographic information in the web environment. 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 10

16. Background, activities, plans The expected outcomes were to document on the use and application of the ISBDXML, the ISBDXML schema, and to document on the directions of further actions to position ISBD within the Semantic Web environment 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 11

18. Goals revised: (2) develop an ISBD RDF/XML schema, (3) ensure the interoperability of the product with similar ones such as MARC/DCXML schemas, at least at the conceptual level, within the current semantic web technologies and services The objective was further detailed with the tasks of analysing and defining the functionalities of ISBD elements in relation to FRBR, (UNI)MARC, and DC/XML schemas, new cataloguing rules such as RDA, REICAT and the Finnish cataloguing rules, analysing and supporting the concept of linked data, and promoting its relevance to vendors in support of the development of new generation library information systems 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 12

19. Background, activities, plans Goals revised: (2) develop an ISBD RDF/XML schema, (3) ensure the interoperability of the product with similar ones such as MARC/DCXML schemas, at least at the conceptual level, within the current Semantic Web technologies and services  the tasks of analysing and defining the functionalities of ISBD elements in relation to FRBR, (UNI)MARC, and DC/XML schemas, new cataloguing rules such as RDA, REICAT, the concept of linked data, and promoting its relevance to vendors in support of the development of new generation library information systems 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 13

20. Background, activities, plans IFLA Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2010  Preliminary representation of ISBD elements in Resource Description Framework (RDF) in Open Metadata Registry, based on the ISBD consolidated edition, draft of 2010-05-10 Open Metadata Registry 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 14

21. Background, activities, plans The representation of ISBD elements in RDF: representation and usage constraints, such as mandatory/optional, order and repeatability of elements, and accepted to express ISBD elements as RDF properties and vocabularies,  revision of ISBD elements / (RDF) properties express the metadata record structure as a Dublin Core Application Profile (DCAP), and express metadata output format, including punctuation, as an XSLT 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 15

22. http://metadataregistry.org/ 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 16

23. http://metadataregistry.org/ 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 17

24. http://www.ifla.org/en/events/isbdxml-study-group-meeting 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 18

25. Background, activities, plans To finalize the representation of the ISBD based on final consolidated edition (to be published in 2011) in RDF To update the application profile (and the XSLT display format for punctuation) Set guidelines for the treatment of translations in Open Metadata Registry (Spanish, Croatian, etc.) To discuss the representation of UNIMARC bibliographic format content designation in RDF To monitor the integration of the ISBD RDF representations with the IFLA infrastructure 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 19

27. IFLA standards branding®

28. Libraries:

29. transformation of their catalogues into RDF triples to contribute to, and take advantage of the Semantic Web

30. “bibliographic” triples linked to triples from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference works, booksellers, publishers, and other agents in the bibliographic universe to enhance information services

31. internal processing: to check the integrity of the record itself by identifying missing elements, sequencing errors, etc.11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 20

33. End-users: providing means to librarians for preparing their metadata for an environment in which users will be enabled to perform tasks according to their specific needs, and not necessarily only those traditionally envisioned by librarians11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 21

34. Thank you for your attention! 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 22

35. References British Library. Bibliographic Standards. Data Model Meeting. Available at: http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/meeting.html DCMI. Guidelines for Dublin Core application profiles. Available at: http://dublincore.org/documents/profile-guidelines/ DCMI RDA Task Group wiki. Available at: http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/ Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Available at: http://dublincore.org/ Dunsire, Gordon. UNIMARC, RDA and the Semantic Web. Presented at World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy. Available at: http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla75/135-dunsire-en.pdf IFLA. Cataloguing Section. FRBR Review Group. Available at: http://www.ifla.org/en/frbr-rg IFLA. Cataloguing Section. ISBD Review Group. ISBD/XML Study Group. Available at: http://www.ifla.org/en/node/1795 IFLA Namespaces Task Group. Available at: http://www.ifla.org/en/node/5353 Joint Steering Group for Development of RDA. RDA: resource description and access. Available at: http://www.rda-jsc.org/rda.html Open Metadata Registry. Available at: http://metadataregistry.org/ Resource description framework (RDF). Available at: http://www.w3.org/RDF/ Willer, Mirna; Gordon Dunsire; Boris Bosančić. ISBD and the Semantic Web. // JLIS.it [Journal of Library and Information Science. Italy = Rivista italiana di biblioteconomia, archivistica e scienza dell'informazione] 1, 2(2010), 213-236. DOI: 10.4403/jlis.it-4536; URI: http://leo.cilea.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/4536 W3C. SKOS Simple knowledge organization system. Available at: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/ 11/03/2011 25 Feb 2011, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 23