The Bibliographic Conceptual Models Interest Group will meet at Midwinter in Philadelphia on Sunday, January 26, 2:30-3:30 pm. The meeting will feature a two-part program, described below.
Bio: Ian Bigelow is the Cataloguing Coordinator at the University of Alberta Library (UAL). He completed his MLIS at Western University and has undergraduate degrees in mathematics and classical studies. He is currently a member of the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing, Canadian BIBFRAME Readiness Task Force, Share VDE Transformation Council, Share VDE Work ID Working Group, Linked Data for Production (LD4P) Profiles Working/Affinity Group, and PCC Linked Data Advisory Committee. Ian is also the UAL PI for the LD4P Cohort.
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Title: On Bibframe Hubs
Abstract: There are more than 2.3M Hubs in
ID.LOC.GOV. Of those, 1.4M were created by extracting Title and NameTitle authority records from the LC/NAF file. The remaining .9M Hubs were extracted from LC’s MARC bibliographic data, from fields containing uniform titles and/or main entries. The MARC sources for BF Hubs strongly indicate their role: Hubs are aggregation and collocation resources. Hubs make it possible, for example, to gather all of the Spanish translations of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer or to capture in which other BF Works Francisco Tarrega’s Capricho árabe is included.
Hubs were partially the result of adding the entire LC Bibliographic dataset to
ID.LOC.GOV as Bibframe and needing a way to connect disparate BF Works (from the Bibliographic dataset) together. In this sense, their development was need based and organic, though conceptually they are very much indebted to Share VDE’s SuperWork concept.
This presentation will review the genesis of Hubs at LC and describe their role in LC’s Bibframe ecosystem. It will also discuss modifications (though slight) made to Hubs since their introduction in June 2019 and how LC sees them at this time fitting into the Bibframe environment.
Bio: Kevin Ford is a Librarian, Linked Data Technical Specialist at the Library of Congress, where he also worked from 2010-2014, in the Network development and MARC Standards Office. He currently works on Bibframe, focusing recently on how best to bring efficiency to the Library’s Bibframe dataset for the purposes of scale. Previously at the Library of Congress, Kevin was a key member of the original LC group developing Library’s Bibliographic Framework Initiative and he was also the project manager for the Library of Congress’s Linked Data service,
http://id.loc.gov.
Please join us on January 26 in Philadelphia!