The George Washington University Libraries' odyssey with BIBFRAME.

1. BIBFRAME
Expressing
and
Connec6ng
Bibliographic
Data
GW’s BIBFRAME ODYSSEY
Jackie Shieh
jshieh@gwu.edu
The George Washington University
Libraries

2. • Environmental Scan (Data & Staff)
• Data Strategies (Building Blocks Approach)
• Staff Training
(Webinars, Classroom Instructions, Study Halls,
Exercises, etc.
• Enlist Fellow Sojourners Nearby
(Metro DC Academic & Research Libraries)
• Technology Support
(Programming developer support)
• Current Status
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Topics

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Environmental Scan
• ILS: Voyager
– GW Lib: 1.8 Million Bib Records
• Staff
– GW Libraries: Resource Description Group,
Global Resource Center, Digital Archivist
– GW Law Library: Cataloging and Metadata
Services

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Data Strategies
• Building Block Approach
– Single Volume Book Record
– Multi-Volume Book Record (Bound-with, Series)
– Multi-formats (Serials, Electronic:
reproduction and concurrent publications)"

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Training
2009
FRBR
WEMI
2010
RDA
TEST
2011
RDA
2012
BIBFRAME
(EE)
2013
Linked
Data
RDF
2014
BIBFRAME
TestBed
• Self-directed
• Webinar
• Classroom
• Group Exercises
• Self-directed
• Weekly meeting
of:
– 2-person
group
– Whole group
• Webinars
• Self-directed
Online
Resources
• Classroom
• Exercises /
Reviews
• Self-directed
• Bi-weekly
meeting of
whole group
• Bi-weekly data
transformation
discussion
• Bi-weekly
study hall

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Transition To Data

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Transition To Data

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Authority Link in Bib
hJp://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-­‐bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=3792771

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Authority Link in Bib
hJp://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-­‐bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=3792771

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Transition String To Data

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Expressing Relationship

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Seek Out Sojourners
• Metro DC Colleagues
– The George Washington University Burns Law
Library
– National Library of Medicine
– Georgetown Law Library
– George Mason University Library
– Johns Hopkins University Library
• Zepheira Training
– April to June, 2014

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Technology Support
• Programming Staff
– None assigned
– Sporadic assistance on a sandbox instance,
installation of tools, e.g. BFE

14. Where Are We Now?
• LC Editor Instance
(http://gwbibframe.wrlc.org/bfe-master)
• Feedback: Vocab and Data Model
(https://github.com/lcnetdev/marc2bibframe/issues)
• Feedback: BFE
(https://github.com/lcnetdev/bfe/issues)
• Zepheira Scribe
(http://editor.bibframe.zepheira.com/static/)
• Solr/Blacklight
(GW IP only: http://gwbibframe.wrlc.org:8081)
• Awaiting Holdings and Item
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15. User Interface--Blacklight?
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Won’t You Come Play
with Us?