Bibliographic Information Organization in the Semantic Web

342 Pages·2013·13.435 MB·English

by  Mirna Willer and Gordon Dunsire (Auth.)

Bibliographic Information Organization
in the Semantic Web
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Bibliographic Information
Organization in the
Semantic Web
M W G D
IRNA ILLER AND ORDON UNSIRE
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Chandos Information Professional Series ISSN: 2052-210X (print) and ISSN: 2052-2118 (online)
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List of figures and tables
Figures
1.1 VIAF: Virtual International Authority File:
types of search selection, and part of the
list of libraries which joined the VIAF 10
1.2.1 VIAF: Virtual International Authority File:
different forms of author’s name linked
together under the search ‘Preferred Headings’ 11
1.2.2 VIAF: Virtual International Authority File:
Bibliothèque nationale de France’s preferred
heading – form chosen for the Croatian
author’s name is Latin 11
1.2.3 The authority file of the Bibliothèque
nationale de France linked from VIAF: the
Latin form of name is designed as a ‘current
Latin form’, while the Croatian name with
appropriate diacritics as ‘international
Croatian form’ – what is considered a
uniform heading 12
1.3 Search of ‘FRBR’ in Yahoo: see categories,
although FRBR shirts and FRBR clothing
will not perhaps meet your primary
bibliographic interest, while cataloguing an
FRBR shirt probably could (!) 14
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1.4.1 FRBR Group 1 entities and their primary
relationships, www.ifla.org/files/assets/
cataloguing/frbr/frbr_2008.pdf, p. 14 18
1.4.2 FRBR ‘responsibility’ relationships between
Group 1 and Group 2 entities, www.ifla.
org/files/assets/cataloguing/frbr/frbr_2008.
pdf, p.15 19
1.5.1 FRAD basic entities and relationships: the
entity Bibliographic Entities comprises of all
FRBR entities 20
1.5.2 FRSAD entities and relationships 21
1.6 FRBRized catalogue: OCLC FictionFinder
prototype, beta version – results of the
choice of the displayed record ‘Alice’s
adventures in wonderland’ with collocated
‘1831 editions, in 59 language, held by
40052 libraries’ (archived website, 2008,
http://fictionfinder.oclc.org) 22
1.7.1 FRBRized catalogues: OCLC WorldCat,
www.worldcat.org 23
1.7.2 FRBRized catalogues: Vero Croatian Union
Catalog, opak.crolib.hr/bnew/search.html –
UNIMARC format FRBRized catalogue 23
1.8 Charles A. Cutter’s Objects and Means for
the dictionary catalogue 30
1.9 Consolidated FR family of models’ combined
user tasks – proposal, April 2012 35
1.10 ISBD element 1.2 General Material
Designation in specialized ISBDs 44
1.11.1 RDA/ONIX Framework primary values for
attributes of resource content 46
1.11.2 RDA/ONIX Framework primary values for
attributes of resource carrier 47
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1.12.1 Format structure of the bibliographic record
according to the provisions of ISO 2709,
Format for bibliographic information
interchange on magnetic tape 54
1.12.2 Bibliographic record in UNIMARC format
(part of the record) 55
1.12.3 Bibliographic record in UNIMARC format
prepared for exchange according to ISO 2709 56
1.13 Structure of the bibliographic record
according to the provisions of XML 63
1.14.1 Anne J. Gilliland, ‘Different types of
metadata and their functions’ 64
1.14.2 Anne J. Gilliland, The Life Cycle of an
Information Object 65
2.1 Graph of citation links in scholarly articles 87
2.2 Graph of part of the early Internet 92
2.3 Graph of part of the Web of documents 97
2.4 RDF graph of basic triple structures 103
2.5 RDF graph of two triples with the same
subject 103
2.6 RDF graph of two triples with a common
subject/object 104
2.7 RDF graph of basic bibliographic data
architectures 105
2.8 RDF graph of label relationships 106
2.9 RDF thing and string authorities 107
2.10 RDF graph using labelling conventions 108
2.11 RDF graph of the triples in Table 2.2 109
2.12 RDA graph combining triples from
Tables 2.2 and 2.4 110
2.13 RDF graph of constrained property, data
triple and inferred data triples 112
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2.14 RDF graph of domain and range ontology 113
2.15 RDF graph of a property constrained to a
vocabulary 114
2.16 RDF graph of ISBD media type term
expressed in SKOS 114
2.17 Components of the DCMI Singapore
Framework 118
2.18 RDF graph with semantic inconsistency 120
2.19 RDF graph giving answer to ‘Who said that?’ 123
2.20 RDF graph of sub-property, etc. 125
2.21 RDF graph showing the entailment of a
data triple 126
2.22 RDF graph of sub-property triples for
bibliographic title 126
2.23 RDF graph of ISBD and DCT title properties 128
2.24 Part of the LOD cloud 133
3.1 OMR screenshot of the ISBD vocabularies
dereferenced from http://iflastandards.
info/ns/isbd 143
3.2 The ISBD Element set published in Open
Metadata Registry (OMR), http://metadata
registry.org/schema/show/id/25.html 148
3.3.1 OMR screenshot of the FRBR entity work
represented as an RDF class: http://metadata
registry.org/schemaprop/show/id/1563.html 154
3.3.2 OMR screenshot of the FRBR attribute
‘title of a work’ represented as an RDF
property: http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/
frbr/frbrer/P3001 155
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3.3.3 OMR screenshot of the FRBR property ‘realized
through’ represented as an RDF property:
http://metadataregistry.org/schemaprop/
show/id/1573.html 155
3.3.4 RDF graph of ontological triples associated
with the FRBR property ‘is realized through’ 157
3.3.5 RDF graph of ontological and data triples
associated with the primary FRBR relationship
between Work and Expression, leading to
semantic incoherence 159
3.4.1 FRBR Work-to-Work Relationships,
FRBR, p. 63 160
3.4.2 OMR screenshot of the RDF representation
of the FRBR work-to-work relationship ‘has
adaptation’: http://metadataregistry.org/
schemaprop/show/id/1623.html 161
3.5.1 OMR screenshot of the ISBD entity ‘resource’
represented as an RDF class: http://metadata
registry.org/schemaprop/show/id/2107.html 162
3.5.2 OMR screenshot of the ISBD element ‘Title
proper’ represented as an RDF subproperty:
http://metadataregistry.org/schemaprop/
show/id/1945.html 163
3.5.3 RDF graph of hierarchical title properties
in ISBD 164
3.5.4 OMR screenshot of the ISBD element ‘Title’
represented as an RDF property: http://
metadataregistry.org/schemaprop/show/
id/1953.html 164
3.5.5 ISBD consolidated edition: partial list
of elements in the ISBD, p. 14 165
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3.6.1 OMR screenshot of the ISBD value
vocabulary for Sensory Specification: http://
metadataregistry.org/vocabulary/show/id/
118.html 166
3.6.2 OMR screenshot of the terms or concepts
in the ISBD value vocabulary for Sensory
Specification: http://metadataregistry.org/
concept/list/vocabulary_id/118.html 166
3.6.3 OMR screenshot of the ISBD concept
‘olfactory’: http://metadataregistry.org/
concept/show/id/1229.html 167
3.6.4 OMR screenshot of the FRAD user task
‘contextualize’: http://metadataregistry.
org/concept/show/id/1238.html 168
3.7 RDF graph of the basic human-readable
semantics of the ISBD class ‘Resource’ 169
3.8.1 RDF graph of the primary relationship
between the ‘thema’ and ‘nomen’ entities
introduced by FRSAD 174
3.8.2 RDF/XML serialization of the RDF graph
of Figure 3.8.1 176
3.8.3 Turtle serialization of the RDF graph of
Figure 3.8.1 177
3.8.4 Condensed version of the turtle serialization
in Figure 3.8.3 179
3.9 RDF graph of ISBD Content form term
using literals in different languages 183
3.10.1 OMR screenshot showing the Spanish
translation of the FRBR class label
‘Corporate Body’: http://metadataregistry.
org/schemapropel/list/schema_property_id/
1568.html 187
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