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This is fantastic news! Thank you Sally, and thank you LCNetDev!

Cheers,
Amber Billey

PCC BIBFRAME Task Group Co-Chair

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 4:27 AM, Osma Suominen <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Dear Sally and the LC BIBFRAME team,
>
> Thank you so much for doing this! I think opening up the BIBFRAME ontology
> for public consultation via GitHub removes one major obstacle for its
> worldwide adaptation. Having a public forum for structured discussion
> around issues in the ontology should make it possible to collaborate on
> resolving problems experienced with using BIBFRAME and enhancing it to need
> emerging needs. I think that GitHub is much better than this listserv for
> this kind of constructive discussion that aims at finding solutions for
> model-related issues.
>
> I've personally reported a number of issues with the BIBFRAME model to the
> GitHub project of the marc2bibframe2 conversion tool, and some of them have
> seemingly hit a wall because the conversion tool implements the conversion
> spec and follows the model and the real problem is in the model. For
> example, I suggested [1] that subproperties of bf:language could be used to
> model e.g. original language, summary language and main language of a
> resource instead of relying on literal values to differentiate between
> these. Should I resubmit this issue (and possibly other similar ones) to
> the new project or are they already being considered?
>
> -Osma
>
> [1] https://github.com/lcnetdev/marc2bibframe2/issues/37
>
> McCallum, Sally kirjoitti 19.04.2018 klo 23:20:
>
>> The Library of Congress is beginning a process for maintaining the
>> BIBFRAME ontology that will enable implementers to suggest corrections and
>> changes.   Various types of ontology adjustments can be suggested via the
>> Issues tab in the github repository for the ontology
>> https://github.com/lcnetdev/bibframe-ontology .   Adjustments may be
>> typos, definition adjustments, or issues that may affect the semantics of
>> the ontology.  Semantic adjustment suggestions should originate with
>> implementers and describe their BIBFRAME experience with the issue.    The
>> Library of Congress will review the changes.  Those with semantic impact
>> will be vetted in collaboration with other implementers who have large
>> systems that use the BIBFRAME ontology.
>>
>> ***********************************
>>
>> Sally H. McCallum
>>
>> Chief, Network Development and Standards Office
>>
>> Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave., SE
>>
>> Washington, DC 20540  USA
>>
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> National Library of Finland
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