[Eril-l] ALA Midwinter Program Announcement: Bibliographic Conceptual Models Interest Group

[Elizabeth Baus]

Happy New Year!

The Bibliographic Conceptual Models Interest Group will meet at Midwinter
in Philadelphia on Sunday, January 26, 2:30-3:30 pm. The meeting will
feature a two-part program, described below.

1. *Title*: Modus Operandi: Creating the SuperWork in Share-VDE and the
Opus level of description
*Abstract*: With the evolution of the Share-VDE project, there was an
identified need for methods of creating universal work identifiers in
general, and for an additional layer of the BIBFRAME stack in particular to
aggregate like works together.  In Share-VDE the SuperWork has been created
for this purpose, and shortly after LC implemented the Hub to their data.
The result is a fourth layer of BIBFRAME (the Opus).  This presentation
will discuss the development of the Opus in general, and how the Share-VDE
SuperWork identifiers are created and used in the data.

Bio: Ian Bigelow is the Cataloguing Coordinator at the University of
Alberta Library (UAL). He completed his MLIS at Western University and has
undergraduate degrees in mathematics and classical studies.  He is
currently a member of the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing, Canadian
BIBFRAME Readiness Task Force, Share VDE Transformation Council, Share VDE
Work ID Working Group, Linked Data for Production (LD4P) Profiles
Working/Affinity Group, and PCC Linked Data Advisory Committee. Ian is also
the UAL PI for the LD4P Cohort.

2. *Title*: On Bibframe Hubs
*Abstract*: There are more than 2.3M Hubs in ID.LOC.GOV.  Of those, 1.4M
were created by extracting Title and NameTitle authority records from the
LC/NAF file.  The remaining .9M Hubs were extracted from LC’s MARC
bibliographic data, from fields containing uniform titles and/or main
entries.  The MARC sources for BF Hubs strongly indicate their role: Hubs
are aggregation and collocation resources.  Hubs make it possible, for
example, to gather all of the Spanish translations of Mark Twain’s Tom
Sawyer or to capture in which other BF Works Francisco Tarrega’s Capricho
árabe is included.

Hubs were partially the result of adding the entire LC Bibliographic
dataset to ID.LOC.GOV as Bibframe and needing a way to connect disparate BF
Works (from the Bibliographic dataset) together.  In this sense, their
development was need based and organic, though conceptually they are very
much indebted to Share VDE’s SuperWork concept.

This presentation will review the genesis of Hubs at LC and describe their
role in LC’s Bibframe ecosystem.  It will also discuss modifications
(though slight) made to Hubs since their introduction in June 2019 and how
LC sees them at this time fitting into the Bibframe environment.

Bio: Kevin Ford is a Librarian, Linked Data Technical Specialist at the
Library of Congress, where he also worked from 2010-2014, in the Network
development and MARC Standards Office.  He currently works on Bibframe,
focusing recently on how best to bring efficiency to the Library’s Bibframe
dataset for the purposes of scale.  Previously at the Library of Congress,
Kevin was a key member of the original LC group developing Library’s
Bibliographic Framework Initiative and he was also the project manager for
the Library of Congress’s Linked Data service, http://id.loc.gov.


Please join us on January 26 in Philadelphia!

Thank you,
Bibliographic Conceptual Models Interest Group
Thomas Dousa, Beth Guay, Co-Chairs
Lizzy Baus, Vice Chair
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