The Bibframe vocabulary consists of RDF classes and properties used for the description of items cataloged principally by libraries, but may also be used to describe items cataloged by museums and archives. Classes include the three core classes - Work, Instance, and Item - in addition to many more classes to support description. Properties describe characteristics of the resource being described as well as relationships among resources. For example: one Work might be a "translation of" another Work; an Instance may be an "instance of" a particular Bibframe Work. Other properties describe attributes of Works and Instances. For example: the Bibframe property "subject" expresses an important attribute of a Work (what the Work is about), and the property "extent" (e.g. number of pages) expresses an attribute of an Instance.
- Prefix
bibframe- Keywords
- ontology subject agnostic
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Links
- Homepage Repository OWL
- Contact
- Kirk Hess
- Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
- Missing LUI pattern
- Example Local Unique Identifier
- DescriptionLevel Resolve
- Example CURIE
- bibframe:DescriptionLevel
- References
- Other https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/
- Contributors
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- submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt 0000-0003-4423-4370 cthoyt
Ontology
A summary of the relations in the Semantic Farm schema can be found here.
- In Collection
- DALIA Resources
Metaregistry Bibliographic Framework Initiative Vocabulary
The metaregistry provides mappings between the Semantic Farm and other registries. There are 3 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.
| Registry Name | Registry Metaprefix | External Prefix | Curate |
|---|---|---|---|
AberOWL
|
aberowl |
BIBFRAME
|
|
BioPortal
|
bioportal |
BIBFRAME
|
|
FAIRSharing
|
fairsharing |
FAIRsharing.xj5egt
|
RDF Information
When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:
http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/$1
Providers
A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).
The local unique identifier DescriptionLevel is used to demonstrate the providers
available for Bibliographic Framework Initiative Vocabulary. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below.
A guide for curating additional providers can be found
here.