The xISBN web service supplies ISBNs and other information associated with an individual intellectual work that is represented in WorldCat. Submit an ISBN to this service, and it returns a list of related ISBNs and selected metadata.
Ideal for web-enabled search applications—such as library catalogs and online booksellers—and based on associations made in the WorldCat database, xISBN enables an end user to link to information about other versions of a source work.
Datos.bne.es is the Linked Data service of the National Library of Spain. It is
a joint experimental development by the BNE and the Ontology Engineering Group (a leading pioneering group in Semantic Web in Spain, from the Technical University of Madrid), whose aim is to explore capabilities of an alternative enhanced view of its bibliographic and authority records, based in FRBR as a reference model and Linked Open Data as a web-friendly publishing and exposure frame.
"What is a Work?" is an oft-discussed question. Answers tend to come down on one side or another of what is essentially a philosophical reaction to the inherent abstractness of the nature of the FRBR Work.
The FRBRoo is a formal ontology intended to capture and represent the underlying semantics of bibliographic information and to facilitate the integration, mediation, and interchange of bibliographic and museum information.
by Patrick Le Boeuf, Library Curator, Department for Standardization, Bibliothèque nationale de France. FRBR shows innovative features, particularly with regard to activities related to the “Semantic Web,” but also elements of conservatism..
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, machine-readable version, FRBR Object-Oriented. The FRBRoo is a formal ontology intended to capture and represent the underlying semantics of bibliographic information and to facilitate the integration, mediation, and interchange of bibliographic and museum information.
RDA (Resource Description and Access) - the working title of the new standard that will be the successor to AACR2. RDA is designed for the digital world. It will provide: A flexible framework for describing all resources - analog and digital; Data that is readily adaptable to new and emerging database structures; Data that is compatible with existing records in online library catalogues. FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) provides the conceptual foundation for RDA .
The Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, due to be released this coming summer, has included since May 2007 a parallel effort to build Semantic Web enabled vocabularies. This article describes that effort and the decisions made to express the vocabularies for use within the library community and in addition as a bridge to the future of library data outside the current MARC-based systems. The authors also touch on the registration activities that have made the vocabularies usable independently of the RDA textual guidance. Designed for both human and machine users, the registered vocabularies describe the relationships between FRBR, the RDA classes and properties and the extensive value vocabularies developed for use within RDA.
The German National Library is currently generating training materials and making these available to all libraries and other cultural institutions in the German-speaking countries to coincide with the introduction of the new cataloguing code Resource Description and Access (RDA). The intention of the German National Library is to support the associations, libraries and other institutions in developing their own training materials and to help avoid duplication of work.