2025/05/28 by Stewart Karp · 1 voice
Computer Science · #Library Science and Information Systems #Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing #Digital Rights Management and Security
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/07317131.2025.2512281
openalex publication_date 2025/05/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15
At the outset of the BIBFRAME project the Library of Congress published a document outlining the workflows that it envisioned would be enabled by using RDF-based linked bibliographic metadata over MARC records. This paper analyzes the workflows described by the Library of Congress and infers the kind of software infrastructure that would be required to support those workflows. The result is that few BIBFRAME workflows actually require BIBFRAME as a metadata standard and are equally possible using MARC. MARC is already, in any meaningful sense, linked data; it is just not RDF. The questions must then be asked: what new possibilities does BIBFRAME enable and do they justify the time and effort required to achieve them?