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It is designed as a container for citations. Articles are one such example, but that well-understood format is not BIBO's main focus. They've been going after the tough ones, including legal cases, conference presentations, letters, etc. Oh, yeah, books, book chapters, quotations. For a partial list, see http://wiki.bibliontology.com/index.php/Examples On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > My problem with bibo is that it's strongly oriented toward academic journal > articles... I would like to see a comparison to MARC, if anyone has done > that, which might give us an idea of what isn't there. For example, I don't > see the various work/work, work/expression relationships. But it has great > detail in some areas, like time intervals and access rights. > > kc > > Tom Keays wrote: >> >> The linked open data crowd might suggest: >> >> Bibliographic Ontology Specification (aka bibo) >> http://bibliontology.com/ >> Abstract: The Bibliographic Ontology Specification provides main >> concepts and properties for describing citations and bibliographic >> references (i.e. quotes, books, articles, etc) on the Semantic Web. >> >> A lot of work has gone into this to make it work with a wide variety >> of possible use cases. It acknowledges FRBR, but doesn't require it. >> The Swedish national library uses a tiny fraction of BIBO, along with >> DC and other RDF vocabularies. BIBO as a whole is much more granular >> than MARC, but whether that makes it more or less suited as a library >> format probably depends on who you are. >> >> Tom >> >> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Peter Schlumpf <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Greetings! >>> >>> I have been lurking on (or ignoring) this forum for years. And libraries >>> too. Some of you may know me. I am the Avanti guy. I am, perhaps, the >>> first person to try to produce an open source ILS back in 1999, though there >>> is a David Duncan out there who tried before I did. I was there when all >>> this stuff was coming together. >>> >>> Since then I have seen a lot of good things happen. There's Koha. >>> There's Evergreen. They are good things. I have also seen first hand how >>> libraries get screwed over and over by commercial vendors with their crappy >>> software. I believe free software is the answer to that. I have neglected >>> Avanti for years, but now I am ready to return to it. >>> >>> I want to get back to simple things. Imagine if there were no Marc >>> records. Minimal layers of abstraction. No politics. No vendors. No SQL >>> straightjacket. What would an ILS look like without those things? >>> Sometimes the biggest prison is between the ears. >>> >>> I am in a position to do this now, and that's what I have decided to do. >>> I am getting busy. >>> >>> Peter Schlumpf >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > ----------------------------------- > Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant > [log in to unmask] http://www.kcoyle.net > ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet > fx.: 510-848-3913 > mo.: 510-435-8234 > ------------------------------------ >