What is BIBFRAME?

Kubikat-LOD system is the linked open data platform of Kubikat libraries. It is based on the same technology as Share-VDE initiative (https://svde.org).

Kubikat-LOD is the collective catalogue in linked open data of four of the leading German scholarly research institutes in the field of art history. The data is structured in an extended version of the BIBFRAME data model. The main 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 or 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

If you are interested in further details or wish to participate to the project please refer to the About Kubikat and Contact sections.

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