MONDAY, June 22, 2026, 1:00pm - 12:00 pm (ET)

BIBFRAME as the core. Most of our BF implementations are hybrid – MARC and BIBFRAME. It is difficult to move all subsystems from MARC to BIBFRAME thus many are still heavily MARC. However, several libraries led by Stanford are advancing a project, Blue Core, that uses BIBFRAME as its center. In the ideal Blue Core world, a BIBFRAME database serves as the catalog of multiple institutions. Can that be achieved? How close can we come to non-duplication of records across institutions? Would it save on bibliographic control? These questions are being explored in Blue Core. The assessment period will produce a prototype Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Shared here (for the first time!) are the development plans for the Blue Core MVP.
Kevin Ford of the Library of Congress also gave a brief update on assigning script and language tags in BIBFRAME.

LINK TO PRESENTATION

• Recording of the presentation (duration: 59:57 minutes)
  Passcode: e*2.&?0n

Program

• Introduction
  Sally McCallum, Library of Congress
• Language Tags in BIBFRAME (and in MARC!)(PDF, 1.0MB)
  Kevin Ford, Library of Congress
• Blue Core MVP: Planning for BIBFRAME Implementation (PPT, 8.1MB)
  Kalli Matthios, (Stanford University)
  Steven Folsom, (Cornell Univerfsity)
  John Mark Ockerbloom, (University of Pennsylvania)