are we ready for bibframe? - cybrarians.orgcybrarians.org/files/bibframe/rania_osman.pdf ·...

P R E S E N T E D B Y

R A N I A O S M A N , M L I S - U C L

H E A D O F K N O W L E D G E M A N A G E M E N T & O R G A N I Z A T I O N U N I T

B I B L I O T H E C A A L E X A N D R I N A

S E P T E M B E R , 2 0 1 5

ARE WE READY FOR BIBFRAME?THE FUTURE OF THE NEW MODEL IN THE ARAB REGION

BACKGROUND

"Cataloguing is one of the oldest information organization activities andhas a history that is over 2000 years old. However, the history of modern-day approaches to cataloguing by using standard principles and practicesis only a few hundred years old, and the most recent development tookplace only over the past few years“(G. Chowdhury and Sudatta Chowdhury 29).

Introduction

MARC 21

The MARC standard for exchanging data has been used by libraries for more than 30 years.

In the early 60s, the library of Congress developed the first machine-readable cataloging project and they called the product (MARC),

then the British library collaborated with the library of Congress and they work on developing the project and as a result MARC was born.

The standard was created at the beginning to serve as the basis for the presentation and exchange of bibliographic data

Limitations of MARC 21

The main problem with MARC is that the cataloguing community is closely tiedto MARC tags and MARC was always mixed up with cataloguing descriptiverules, therefore it ended up a as a carrier and descriptive schema.

Limitations of MARC 21 (contd.)

MARC is used exclusively by libraries which keep the library community isolated from the other communities and people cannot log to our data. Moreover, every statement in MARC depends mainly on the entire record for context and meaning as none of the statement of MARC record including the fields and subfields can stand alone

Resource Description & Access (RDA)

RDA Development

Year Progress

2005 AACR3 developed to be RDA

2006-2007 The Joint Steering committee reviews the first draft of RDA

2009 FRBR

22nd June 2010 Public Release to RDA

1st July 2010 – Dec. 2010 Trainings and Testing Phase

Jan. – March Analysis and Evaluation of the Implementation Tests

June 2011 RDA announcement and Decision to postpone implementation to 2013

31st March 2013, RDA Day one official implementation in the Library of Congress (LC)

2013-2015 RDA Updates Continued

RDA Challenges

FRBR remains a theoreticalnotation of the bibliographicuniverse that is still a theoreticalthat is still neither concrete noravailable.

RDA is expensive to beimplemented and requiredifficult trainings that wouldmake it so hard for many Arablibraries to adopt it to theircollection.

Interest of RDA in the Arab Region

Year Progress

1 April 2013 1st Conference on RDA in the Arab region organized by Cybrarian

2013 – 2014

Arab National Libraries start adopting RDA

June 2013, Lebanese National Library start implementation

February 2014, Qatar National Library started cataloguing usingRDA

AUC and Library of Congress office in Egypt

2014

More RDA Workshops in the Arab region

March 2014, workshop organized by (AFLI) in Qatar, Doha

August 2014, round table organized by Library experts in AlexandriaLibrary, Egypt

2014 – 2015More Arab Libraries adopting RDA in United Arab Emirates and Iraq(Atabah Library)

April 2015 Workshop on RDA in Cairo University, Egypt

Limitations of MARC for RDA

Difficult to represent relationships

Moving Away from MARC 21

“Most [testers] felt any benefits of RDA would be largely unrealized in a MARCenvironment. MARC may hinder the separation of elements and ability to useURIs in a linked data environment.”

U.S. National Libraries RDA Test Report, p. 8. http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/source/rdatesting-finalreport-20june2011.pdf

“MARC has served us wellfor a long time and got usinto the computer age, nowwe need something to moveus, our data and our cultureinto the web page”

Both QNL (Qatar NationalLibrary) & (LNL) LebaneseNational Library were thefirst national librariesadopted RDA, suggestedto move away from MARC

Bibliographic Framework (BIBFRAME)

How Can We Get Involved?

Technologies

Semantic Web Linked Data

Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is a Web of data

Vision of The Semantic Web

W3C Semantic Web FAQ: http://www.w3.org/RDF/FAQ

Extends principles of the Web from documents to data.

Provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and

reused across application, enterprise, and community

boundaries.

Semantic Web & CATALOGUING

For describing the content and content relationships available at a particular Web site, page, or digital library

Advantages of Linked Data

Tim Berners-Lee, Design Issues: Linked Data http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData

Resource Description Framework (RDF)

A data model for describing things

RDF Model

A subject, predicate, and object, which correspond to a resource (subject), a property (predicate), and a

property value (object)

Subject Predicate Object

BIBFRAME MODEL

Difficulties with BIBFRAME in the Arab region

The lists of terms that are associated with the BIBFRAME categories need to be translated into

equivalent Arabic terms

RDA Events BIBFRAME Events

Year Event

1 April 20131st Conference on RDA in the Arab region

organized by Cybrarian

2013 – 2014

Arab National Libraries start adopting RDA

June 2013, Lebanese National Library start

implementation

February 2014, Qatar National Library

started cataloguing using RDA

AUC and Library of Congress office in Egypt

2014

More RDA Workshops in the Arab region

March 2014, workshop organized by (AFLI)

in Qatar, Doha

August 2014, round table organized by

Library experts in Alexandria Library, Egypt

2014 – 2015More Arab Libraries adopting RDA in United

Arab Emirates and Iraq (Atabah Library)

April 2015Workshop on RDA in Cairo University,

Egypt

Year Event

Oct. 2014Workshop on BIBFRME in the Arab region

organized by (AFLI) in Tunisia

Dec. 2014Workshop on BIBFRAME in Cairo

University, Egypt

In Sep. 2015, the 1st conference on BIBFRAME organized by Cybrarians

Arab Interest in New Standards

Implementation Fears

Things that concern most about BIBFRAME implementation are:

ILS Issues

Where to Start?

Small Libraries and small budgets

Librarians fear this change

Catalogs interface

Trainings Costs

Language Barrier

Libraries Registered for BIBFRAME Test

Year Organization's Name

2014

Library of Congress

Colorado College

German National Library

George Washington University

Princeton University Library

Stanford University

National Library of Music

Cornell University Library

Columbia University Libraries

Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba “José Martí” (BNJM)

2015

University College London Department of

Information Studies

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

26th March 2015, Library of Alexandria was added to register as the 1st Arab Library to join the Experiment

MARC Record

BIBFRAME

Recommendation

Providing special programs introducing the new standards (RDA and BIBFRAME) at the library schools

Consultancy group consisting of Arab professional catalogers and system librarians

(The group could work under the umbrella of a professional association like AFLI (Arab Federation for Libraries and Information) or MELA (Middle East Library Association) More libraries should register in the implementation Translating the new vocabularies into Arabic

Next Steps for You?

ILS Issues – backend and public displays Trainings needs Develop training materials depending on trusted sources learn all about the new model then put it to the test – Do not wait! Within your institution or across a cooperative, Cooperate! Decide upon your library status: Are you ready to adopt (or notadopt!)

Implementation Requirements In The Arab Region

users

librarians

Integrated Library System

System librarians

Catalogues

FUTURE

Future of Cataloguing Community

Technical services budgets and staffing are declining. The newcataloguing instructions and standards like (BIBFRAME, RDA, andFRBR) are not simpler and do not promise greater cataloguingefficiencies.

Conclusion

All what the catalogers should worry about in the time being is mapping MARCC 21 to BIBFRAME regardless of the descriptive tool that is used and the impact on

the user interface.

We would like not to be closely tied to any other scheme.Catalogers are seeing RDA and they do not have to worry withwhat’s happening with BIBFRAME.

All what the catalogers should worry about in the time being ismapping MARC 21 to BIBFRAME regardless of the descriptivetool that is used and the impact on the user interface.

Useful Resources on BIBFRAME

Homepage: http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/

Demos, vocabularies, and code: http://bibframe.org/

Listserv: BIBFRAME@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV

Presentations from ALA Midwinter, January 2013:

http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/presentations/index.html

Kroegar, Angela. "The road to BIBFRAME: The Evolution of the Idea of Bibliographic Transition into Post-MARC Future". Cataloguing and Classification Quarterly 51.8 (2013): 873-890. Web. 10 Aug. 2015.

Nelson, Jeremy and Lorimer, Nancy.“Experimenting with BIBFRAME: Reports from Early Adopters”. NISO. 8 April. 2015. presentation.

EL-Nasharty, Moamen. "The BIBFRAME Initiative in OPACs" AFLI Workshop. Hammamet, Tunisia 26-27 Oct. 2014. Workshop presentation.