What is BIBFRAME?

The British National Bibliography portal is a platform which allows the browsing of library collections using linked data. The data is structured in an extended version of the BIBFRAME data model. The main BIBFRAME-based entities that can be explored on the entity discovery portal are:

• Agents (persons, families, organizations and conferences)
  • These are the actors that create original works contribute to publications — e.g. “Jules Verne”
• Original works
  • These are clusters of publications — e.g. “Around the world in 80 days”, which would be an original work. On this page would be listed all the versions in various languages and editions of the original work.
• Publications
  • These are specific versions of Original Works. E.g. “Around the world in 80 days, Paperback, French, 2017 by Publisher X”
• Items
  • These are copies of Publications, representing a specific, physical item held in a library

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To read more about BIBFRAME in general, feel free to take a look at the BIBFRAME pages on Library of Congress or Wikipedia.