BIBFLOW: An IMLS Project

Xiaoli LiCo-head of Content Support ServicesUniversity of California Davis Library

Jan. 31, 2015

What Is the BIBFLOW Project?

• Is a 2-year project of the UC Davis University Library and Zepheira, funded by Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (May 2014 – April 2016)

• Its official title is “Reinventing Cataloging: Models for the Future of Library Operations”

• Is a research project that will address questions like “What impact will adoption of BIBFRAME on technical services workflows in an academic library”?• BIBFLOW = BIBframe + workFLOW

• One of the major deliverables is a that can help library community transition cataloging work to a linked data/BIBFRAME native ecosystem

Roadmap

How?

This complexity leads to the inevitable conclusion that Linked Data represents an evolutionary leap

for libraries and not a simple migration.

Workflows and Use CasesBIBFLOW’s focus is on developing a roadmap for migrating essential library work efforts (workflows) to a BIBFRAME / LOD ecosystem.  Library work involves daily engagement with a large collection of software systems, institutions, and vendors.  As such, moving to a LOD ecosystem is not simply a matter of understanding its impact on library data but also on these complex workflows.

Automated process (weekly done by Systems Dept)

Bib

Auth

OCLC WorldCat

New Name Auth?

Propose to LC

yes

yes

Auth

Control

Melvyl (UC

OPAC)

Aleph

Auth

Bib

Harvest (UCD OPAC)

Original Cataloging Workflow for Print Monographs

Create holdings recordAdd/complete item record

Physical Processing

Unit

Vendor Service

New Sub Heading?

Use Case: Original Non-Rare Book Cataloging Using OCLC Connexion Client

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We need your feedback!

We invite comment on these workflows posted on our project blog: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/bibflow/workflow-analysis/

Please let us know how these workflows compare to the workflows at your institution and also what workflows are missing. We will use your input to adjust our testing as the project progresses.

Assessment of Library Management System

To make the transition into LOD/BIBFRAME possible, library community needs a linked data oriented system

Key Findings about Kuali-OLE

• OLE 1.0 (latest release at the time when we reviewed the product in 2014) is not cable of supporting LOD/BIBFRAME operations.

However,

• OLE’s bibliographic database (DocumentStore) is robust, extensible, and capable in its current form of dealing with linked data. This is advantageous from a development perspective.

For more information, visit our project blog: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/bibflow/initial-kuali-ole-assessment/

Based on identified workflows and the Kauli-OLE assessment, we were able to develop a preliminary LOD/BIBFRAME implementation model. This model allows for the gradual, phased shifting of library work efforts from a MARC to LOD/BIBFRAME ecosystem such that all workflows will function and communicate with each other synchronously regardless if they are LOD/BIBFRAME or MARC native.

What’s Next?UC Davis and Zepheira will enhance BIBFRAME Scribe by adding external services and developing BIBFRAME profiles

MeSH

> Serials

> maps

> Authority?

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What’s Next? (continued)

• Program the Kauli-OLE product so UCD catalogers can use Scribe to create BIBFRAME description for various materials and store the data in a BIBFRAME-RDF triplestore.

• Develop and test data transformation service/tools

• Identify and connect an open source OPAC to the triplestore

Standard Kauli - OLE Implementation

Full BIB OLD/BIBFRAME Implementation

Native LOD/BIBFRAME Implementation

EAD

Holdings

Order

CIRC

METSRDA

DDI

LMS

Vendors OCLC

Publishers

?

Triplestore

Xiaoli’s Dream

Content from Web

Thank you!

We look forward to your feedback!bibflow@lib.ucdavis.edu

http://lib.ucdavis.edu/bibflow