Dear Sally, Ray and all,
As co-chairs and co-editors of the W3C Open Annotation Community
Group, Paolo, Herbert and I would again like to invite members
of the BIBFRAME group to continue the discussion of
interoperable annotation on the mailing list for the W3C
Community Group. There is neither a cost nor membership
requirement to joining.
We feel it is fair to say that the Open Annotation effort has
gained significant momentum, being the 6th largest community
group with many active and ongoing discussions. However there is
always room for improvement, and we still believe that both
BIBFRAME and Open Annotation would benefit from an open
discussion of the issues that resulted in the divergence which
is clear in the annotation document.
It is regrettable that the BIBFRAME annotation model is neither
compatible nor interoperable with the Open Annotation Data
Model, especially given the significant overlap between the
target communities of Open Annotation and BIBFRAME. We are
disappointed that prior efforts to engage with the BIBFRAME
community regarding annotation did not yield more constructive
results to this stage. We hope that our invitation to discuss
issues on the W3C Community Group will be met positively as we
feel we owe it to our communities to work towards convergence.
Respectfully,
Robert Sanderson, Paolo Ciccarese, and Herbert Van de Sompel
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:08 AM, McCallum, Sally <
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> Thanks to all for your comments and ideas over the last few
months. The small team that we have called the Early
Experimenters has prepared some discussion papers on difficult
topics related to the BIBFRAME model and the developing draft
vocabulary. Now we want to put these papers on
bibframe.org and begin discussion on this
listserv. By preparing background and recommendation papers we
hope to help focus the discussion on the issues.
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> The issues are some of the hard ones that all of us who
deal with bibliographic data run into -- always. We are
starting with the BIBFRAME Annotations paper, which you can find
here:
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http://bibframe.org/documentation/annotations
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> Then we hope to get discussion papers on BIBFRAME
Authorities, Relationships, Schema.org, and Resource types out
soon, followed by Holdings, Aggregates, and other issues.
These were prepared by various subgroups of the Experimenter
team. We do not want to send everything at once as we would
like you to have focus rather than overload.
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> We ask that when discussing the topics, you name your
listserv comment with the topic short title (indicated on the
topic paper) with an extra title to bind threads, e.g.,
"annotations--main point".
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> We at LC continue to work on the conversion of MARC data,
which, along with RDA, is the current feeder of the current
vocabulary available at
http://bibframe.org/.
In the last couple of months, we have made the following
enhancements to the BIBFRAME website:
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> - Regularly updated to the vocabulary:
http://bibframe.org/vocab/
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> - Added BIBFRAME example snippets in vocabulary section:
e.g.
http://bibframe.org/vocab/class-lcc
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> - Improved the MARC-to-BIBFRAME code:
http://bibframe.org/tools/
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> - Added a set of Frequently Asked Questions:
http://bibframe.org/faq/
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> We have made every effort to update the MARC-to-BIBFRAME
transformation code after modifying the vocabulary, and we plan
to change and enhance the code based on feedback from the
papers. You can begin using the transformation code today as a
reference and starting point for your own explorations. See the
contribute page to learn more:
http://bibframe.org/contribute/.
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> Please read the papers that we are be putting up on
bibframe.org and participate in the
discussion -- we are all in this together!
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> Sally
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