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. |
Analysis/Modeling
Collaboration
Community Engagement
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Use Case Development
Analysis/Modeling
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Joyce Bell (Princeton University) |
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