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.
For questions or comments, please contact Jason Kovari, Head of Metadata Services, Cornell University Library: jak473 [ at ] cornell dot edu
Analysis/Modeling (Collaborations with ArtFrame)
- Notes & Annotations motivations
- Provenance (Ownership) modeling
- Physical Description modeling
- Awards
- Exhibitions
Modeling Tracks
- Materiality
- Relationality
Community Engagement
- Continue efforts with RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
Use Case Development
- Defined use cases for description of rare materials
- Classified use cases into entity types
- Identified areas for modeling based on DCRM and other standards
- Compared Rare Material use cases to ArtFrame use cases and identified commonalities
Analysis/Modeling
- Accession Number (with ArtFrame)
- Bibliographic Citation
- Measurements of Part, Whole and Arrangement (with ArtFrame)
- Physical Condition (with ArtFrame)
Collaboration
Joyce Bell (Princeton University)
Amber Billey (Columbia University)
Amy Brown (Boston College)
Peter Green (Princeton University)
Matthew Haugen (Columbia University)
Linda Isaac (University of Miami)
Jason Kovari (Team Lead. Cornell University)
Ann Myers (Stanford University)
Chew Chiat Naun (Cornell University)
Margaret Nichols (Cornell University)
Michelle Paquette (Stanford University)
Sarah Ross (Cornell University)
Nina Schneider (William Andrews Clark Library, UCLA)
Timothy Thompson (Yale University)
Rebecca Younes (Cornell University)
- Ontology extension to BIBFRAME 2.0 + bibliotek-o for describing rare materials and sound recordings
- Data models for handling materiality, provenance, annotations and other concepts relevant to describing rare materials
- Ontology documentation, including modeling illustrations
