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BIBFRAME is a linked data model, developed by the Library of Congress, for expressing and connecting bibliographic data. It was developed by the Library of Congress to eventually replace the MARC format, and to serve as "the library community’s formal entry point for becoming part of a much larger web of data, where the links between things are paramount."

Building on earlier analysis done by the Linked Data for Libraries (2014-2016) project, LD4P and LD4L-Labs conducted an in-depth evaluation of BIBFRAME, developing recommendations for implementing and extending BIBFRAME. Many of these recommendations have already been adopted by the Library of Congress and are reflected in BIBFRAME 2.0.

We are documenting bibliotek-o modeling decisions, including bibliotek-o, an extension and deviation from BIBFRAME 2.0 in key modeling areas; these areas are defined in our recommendation documents. Further, we are producing application profiles, and mappings.

As work begins on our metadata production projects, we will continue to develop recommendations for best practices in implementing BIBFRAME.

bibliotek-o deliverable focus on the ontology itself as well as , including:

• bibliotek-o
• bibliotek-o OWL representation (URL coming soon)
• bibliotek-o Github Repository
• BIBFRAME 2.0 + bibliotek-o mapping to MARC (Mapping from MARC (status: in-progress)
• Application profile (status: in-progress)
• Sample RDF