BIBFRAME

BIBFRAME seems to be an extension of the MARCXML standard.

It is developed by the Library of Congress in 2016, and adopted by National Library of Sweden in 2018.

Data model

It has the entities work (book), edition, and instance.

Entities of a published work

Entity	Description	Characteristics
Work	Written work	A work written by one or more authors
Edition	Identified by ISBN number	An edition, possibly a translation, published by a publisher
Instance	Physical copy	A physical copy owned by a library or another third party

Projects

• Wikidata:WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/LC-BIBFRAME-Wikidata-Project

See also

• BIBFRAME (wp.en)
• MARCXML

External links

• Library of Congres BIBFRAME specifications
• BIBFRAME Profiles: Introduction and Specification
• Wikidata and Wikibase as complementary research data management services for cultural heritage data (paper)