In conjunction with the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscript Section's Bibliographic Standards Committee (RBMS-BSC), Cornell University Library is leading an effort to build an ontology extension for the description of rare materials. This collaborative effort is intended to provide RBMS-BSC with a model for handling the complexity of rare materials, particularly item-level description not addressed in BIBFRAME 2.0 or bibliotek-o. Adoption and usage of the Rare Materials Ontology Extension will be determined by RBMS-BSC following initial development and assessment.
For a number of modeling areas, such as provenance and physical description, the Rare Materials Ontology Extension group is partnering with ArtFrame; the two groups have overlapping use cases. Building off of BIBFRAME 2.0, the Rare Materials Ontology Extension will reuse existing ontologies, such as bibliotek-o and the Web Annotations data model, in addition to minting terms where the correct semantics are not available in other ontologies.
For questions or comments, please contact Jason Kovari, Director of Cataloging & Metadata Services, Cornell University Library: jak473 [ at ] cornell dot edu
Analysis/Modeling (Collaborations with ArtFrame)
- Bindings
- Carriers & Bound-withs
- Exhibitions
- Markings and Autographs
- Resource-to-Relationship mappings
Community Engagement
- Continue efforts with RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
Use Case Development
- Defined use cases for description of rare materials
- Classified use cases into entity types
- Identified areas for modeling based on DCRM and other standards
- Compared Rare Material use cases to ArtFrame use cases and identified commonalities
Analysis/Modeling
- Accession Number (with ArtFrame)
- Bibliographic Citation
- Custodial History (with ArtFrame)
- Fonts, Handwriting Types and Notations
- Limitation Statement
- Materials (with ArtFrame)
- Measurements of Part, Whole and Arrangement (with ArtFrame)
- Pagination and Foliation
- Physical Condition (with ArtFrame)
- Signature Statements
Collaboration
- In-Person Meeting of ARTframe + Rare Materials Ontology Extension (January 2018)
- In-Person Meeting of ARTframe + Rare Materials Ontology Extension (March 2017)
Amber Billey (Bard College)
Amy Brown (Boston College)
Todd Fell (Yale University)
Steven Folsom (Cornell University)
Peter Green (Princeton University)
Linda Isaac (University of Miami)
Jason Kovari (Team Lead. Cornell University)
Margaret Nichols (Cornell University)
Michelle Paquette (Stanford University)
Audrey Pearson (Yale University)
Timothy Thompson (Yale University)
Rebecca Younes (Cornell University)
- Ontology extension to BIBFRAME 2.0 + bibliotek-o for describing rare materials and sound recordings
- Data models for handling materiality, provenance, annotations and other concepts relevant to describing rare materials
- Ontology documentation, including modeling illustrations
