Karen Coyle

PDFC | The cultural heritage data communities are racing forward into the future with FRBR, BIBFRAME, RDA, and other bibliographic models. Unfortunately, these models are weighted down with the long history of bibliographic description, like stones in our pockets. As someone who worked on the cusp between card catalogs and machine-readable data, Coyle looks back on the moments in our recent history when we should have emptied our pockets and moved forward. As one who was there, there are ''mea culpas''. Coyle will also surprise you with the truth about FRBR and some radical thinking about what to do with that past that is holding us back from achieving the future we should be pursuing | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0CMuxZsAIY&feature=youtu.be&list=PL7fMs... | YouTube Video |

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RT - FRBR
BT - Framework
NT - Bibliographic Framework
UF - The document is about a talk by Karen Coyle discussing the challenges and mistakes in the development of bibliographic models in the cultural heritage data communities.
SN - This is a PDF of the video talk recording - transcript. The most used technology in the 70s and 80s was relational databases (This entry does not reference a hierarchical list)… (más)

I picked up this issue of Library Technology Reports because I was looking for an introduction to Linked Data and RDF (Resource Description Framework), explained in such a way that a traditional MARC cataloger like myself could understand. And that's exactly what I got. In 4 chapters Karen Coyle covers how library data operates today, where elements of MARC have no meaning if taken out of the context of the MARC record. For example, "New York: Penguin, 2010." means nothing without the rest of the record to provide context. She then describes the metadata models of the world wide web, namely RDF, and how the RDF model can be applied to library data so that our bibliographic descriptions have meaning outside the context of the bibliographic record, enabling interaction with outside data. The third and fourth chapters discuss the FRBR model and what the new cataloging standard RDA looks like within the RDF model. The many graphs and diagrams clearly illustrate these abstract concepts, and several examples of XML records demonstrate how these concepts look in actual practice. There's also a great resource list at the end for further reading on FRBR, RDA, RDF, Linked Data, and OCLC Research. This is a great introduction for anyone interested in understanding RDF and Linked Data, and it's very exciting to see what possibilities could be opened up by the adoption of RDA in RDF.… (más)