Presented at the 2014 ALA Annual Conference, meeting of the Competencies and Education for a Career in Cataloging Interest Group

1. Cataloger 3.0
Competencies and Education for the BIBFRAME Catalog
Presented at the 2014 ALA Annual Conference, Competencies and Education for a Career in Cataloging Interest Group Meeting

2. Catalog 3.0
Just in case BIBFRAME flops:
We’ll focus on tools and skills that
can be applied in any library
metadata and information access
scenario that takes advantage of
SemanticWeb technologies
Thomas Meehan,“Beyond MARC: MARC, linked data, and Bibframe,”
http://www.slideshare.net/orangeaurochs/marcld2013

3. Why
BIBFRAME?
Because interoperability.
University of Toronto Libraries,“Library Linked Data and the Future of
Bibliographic Control,” http://www.slideshare.net/ITSToronto/linked-
data-olita-2013

4. How the RealWorldThinks of Book Information
Phil John,“Linked Library Data in the wild,”
http://www.slideshare.net/philjohn/linked-library-data-in-the-wild-8593328

5. The BIBFRAME Catalog
An Introduction

6. BIBFRAME
Model:
• CreativeWork
• Instance
• Authority
• Annotation
Vocabulary:
• http://bibframe.org/vocab/
Eric Miller et al., Bibliographic
Framework as aWeb of Data: Linked
Data Model and Supporting Services
(Washington, DC: Library of
Congress, November 21, 2012)
Thomas Meehan, “BIBFRAME”
http://www.slideshare.net/orangeaurochs/cig-tm-bibframe

7. The catalog is
extensible
Annotation class facilitates access
to a variety of data sources
outside of the library catalog
The opportunity to imagine new
user experiences?
Coyle’s InFormation,“BIBFRAME Authorities” (March 14, 2013)
http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2013/05/bibframe-authorities.html

8. Holdings are an
Annotation
<rdf:Description rdf:about=
"http://xyz.org/bibframeTestCases/Annotations/Annotation/Holding">
<bf:callNumber>PS3572.O5 B5 1987C</bf:callNumber>
<bf:heldBy rdf:resource="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/organizations/dlc"/>
<bf:dateOfAssertion>20130807</bf:dateOfAssertion>
<bf:holds rdf:resource=
"http://xyz.org/bibframeTestCases/Annotations/Instance/Bluebeard"/>
<bf:copyNote>Signed by the author.</bf:copyNote>
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://bibframe.org/vocab/Holding"/>
<bf:accessCondition>Access is restricted; consult library for details
</bf:accessCondition>
<bf:copyNote>copy 157</bf:copyNote>
<bf:subLocation>Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms</bf:subLocation>
<bf:copyId>71234</bf:copyId>
<bf:circulationStatus>non-circulating</bf:circulationStatus>
<bf:annotationAssertedBy rdf:resource=
"http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/organizations/dlc"/>
</rdf:Description>
(The de-integrated library
system?)
The opportunity for really
awesome item-level description!

9. Linked Data
is a thing
The catalog is made up of data,
not documents
That data is on the (surface) Web

10. Authority
Control Finally
GetsAwesome
We switch from strings to things
(proper identifiers)
Authority control is achieved with
URIs that can be de-referenced
Might we pay a little more
attention to our Authority
records? Might they become info
resources in their own right?
“The most basic unit of Linked
Data value is the hyperlink.The
most powerful aspect of hyperlinks
is their ability deliver combined
denotation (naming) and access
(de-reference) services for data
objects that represent entities
(real-world, web, and other
realms).”
Kingsley Idehen,“Linked Data’s Follow-Your-Nose Pattern,”
https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/posts/KWXYFFvMw8g

11. Encoding is
human-readable
BIBFRAME can serialized in
human-readable markup languages,
like rdf/xml or json
Does the dichotomy between
“copy catalogers” and “original
catalogers” still make sense?
Screenshot of the BIBFRAME Editor, http://bibframe.org/tools/editor/

12. Everything is
Non-MARC
Does the dichotomy between the
“catalog librarian” and the
“metadata librarian” still make
sense?

13. User Interface
Design is Ours
Death of the out-of-the-box
library catalog?
Browsing experiences?
Custom-tailored search features?
Micro-catalogs for specific
purposes?
Screenshot from University of Miami Libraries,“UDVD,”
https://library.miami.edu/udvd/

14. New UserTasks
Maybe we’ll stop giving them so much work

15. UserTask:
Browse
Hyperlinks facilitate follow-your-
nose browsing
Jackie Shieh,“Bib Data Experiment – the GW Journey,”
http://www.slideshare.net/jshieh/bib-data-experiment-the-gw-journey

16. UserTask:
Re-purpose
Mash & Re-mix
“Digital Scholarship”
Visualize
Play
DataVisualization from the Book Artists Unbound
project, http://eac.allisonjai.com

17. The BIBFRAME Catalog Librarian
Resource Description Librarian?
Metadata Librarian?

18. Toolkit for Cataloger 3.0
NEW STUFF
Variety of markup languages
RDF & Semantic Web tools
Item-level description
Licenses and copyright for data
Research
Interoperability
External collaborations
SAME OLD STUFF
Authority control
Cooperative content creation,
sharing, and use
Database management
Entity-relationship model
User experience design

19. Education for Cataloger 3.0
CATALOGER 2.0 LEARNED
Principles of information
organization in libraries
Classification schemes
MARC formats
Content guidelines
(RDA, AACR2)
CATALOGER 3.0 SHOULD LEARN
New principles of information
organization for the SemanticWeb
(OWL, SKOS, RDF)
Data transfer and transformations
Transmission (JSON, XML)
Styling (CSS, XSLT)
Querying (SQL, SPARQL)
Reporting (PERL, Python)

20. The BIBFRAME Catalog Librarian
Our old labor paradigms don’t apply:
Professional Librarian |= Original Cataloger
Paraprofessional Librarian |= Copy Cataloger
Metadata Librarian |= Digital Collections
Who is Cataloger 3.0?
Database Manager? Discovery Interface Designer? Policy Setter?
Usability Tester? Data Curator? Infographic Designer?
Web Content Writer? Crosswalk Guru? Research Analyst?

21. Danke!
Allison Jai O’Dell
Special Collections Cataloging & Metadata Librarian | University of Miami Libraries
a.odell@miami.edu | @AllisonJaiODell | umscc.tumblr.com

22. Resources
•Eric Miller et al., Bibliographic Framework as aWeb of
Data: Linked Data Model and Supporting Services
(Washington, DC: Library of Congress, November
21, 2012)
•Thomas Meehan,“Linked Data:What cataloguers
need to know”
http://www.slideshare.net/orangeaurochs/cig-tm-
bibframe
•Thomas Meehan,“Beyond MARC: MARC, linked data,
and Bibframe”
http://www.slideshare.net/orangeaurochs/marcld2013
•Kai Li,“Introduction to BIBFRAME”
http://www.slideshare.net/islanderlee/introduction-
to-bibframe
•Dorothea Salo,“MARC and BIBFRAME: Linking
libraries and archives”
http://www.slideshare.net/cavlec/marc-and-bibframe-
linking-libraries-and-archives
•Karen Coyle,“Bibframe Experiments,”
http://kcoyle.net/bibframe/
•Allyson Carlyle,“Cataloging Competencies for a
Dynamic Professional,”
http://connect.ala.org/files/25915/AllysonCarlyleALA
Midwinter2013.ppt.pdf
•Lukas Koster,“Linked Open Data for Libraries,”
http://www.slideshare.net/lukask/linked-open-data-for-
libraries
•Jackie Shieh,“Bib Data Experiment – the GW Journey,”
http://www.slideshare.net/jshieh/bib-data-experiment-
the-gw-journey
•University of Toronto Libraries,“Library Linked Data and
the Future of Bibliographic Control,”
http://www.slideshare.net/ITSToronto/linked-data-olita-
2013