Vocabularies and Registries

Metadata elements can be expressed as formal vocabularies. Vocabularies using RDF are the basis for many Semantic Web efforts. There is work taking place with members of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and experts in RDA to express the RDA data elements and the many vocabulary lists used by RDA in a formal RDF format.

This expression of data elements as a vocabulary would satisfy the Data or Domain Model as shown in the Framework document.

Links

Formal Definitions of FRBR

• FRBR in RDF
• FRBRoo -- Object-oriented

The RDA Vocabulary Project

• Data Modeling Meeting with background documents on the RDA vocabularies effort
• Data Modeling wiki where the work being done will be documented
• RDA in the Open Metadata Registry

RDF Models

• RDF for Martha Yee's Cataloging Rules

  YeeRDF

Background Information

• RDF
• Simple Knowledge Organization Systems A way to organize and express data and relationships
• DCMI Abstract Model A possible abstract model for RDA, or a good example of one