NDMSO staff are working on various aspects of BIBFRAME with a recent focus on the vocabulary and its transformation.  Our goal had been to keep the vocabulary stabile for a year to enable development of test implementations, but we have begun to compile a set of issues on the vocabulary.  The MARC to BIBFRAME transformation is also constantly undergoing refinement, correction, and expansion in response to our internal testing and to your testing in the testbed.  Nate Trail reloads it almost every week. We have also been working with contractors on the tools described below.

We have also begun planning for a BIBFRAME pilot that Beacher Wiggins, Director for cataloging and acquisitions, plans to start next spring/summer.   We will know more about that at the next report time.

Since the spring we have completed a contract for an analysis of AV material BIBFRAME AV Modeling Study which I hope all of you have read.  We have begun to hold meetings to sort out the impact on accommodating their needs in BF. 

In addition the following contract work is completed or underway.

Metaproxy for BIBFRAME Output

Summary:
This project enables the open source software, Metaproxy, to send results to clients in the emerging BIBFRAME RDF. LC uses the Metaproxy software to support the SRU and Z39.50 protocol queries to its Voyager catalog.  Although the extension to Metaproxy has been completed, replacement of the existing version of Metaproxy at LC will take several months as it has to go through an installation process.   With this version of Metaproxy, a user is be able to submit an SRU request (which includes a normal CQL query) to Metaproxy and request BIBFRAME data in the response. The request indicates this by specifying a value of ‘bibframe’ for the record Schema parameter.  After the proxy queries the MARC system and the server returns MARCXML records to the proxy, the MARCXML records are converted by Metaproxy to BIBFRAME. 
Contractor: Indexdata. 
Status: The software enhancement was completed in September, but LC has work to do to install in the LC system as Metaproxy is a key part of our ILS setup.   Indexdata will be making a version of Metaproxy with this new enhancement available open source (GPL) in the next few weeks.

Preservation Metadata for AV Materials

Summary:
This study targets better understanding of the relationship between the BIBFRAME description metadata and PREMIS preservation metadata, in order to develop a proposal for handling the relationship.   The contractor is analyzing an adaptation of the BIBFRAME model proposed for AV materials in the AV Modeling Study (cited above) with respect to the data model provided in PREMIS. This may also include an analysis of what is available in other format-specific metadata standards such as PBCore and EBUCore.
Contractor: AudioVisual Preservation Solutions. 
Study expected: Spring 2015.

Search and Display

Summary:
A contractor is developing a search and display tool, to encourage experimentation with searching and displaying BF style metadata. It will query some kind of store (an index or database, for example) containing resource descriptions that are compatible with the BIBFRAME Vocabulary and Model.  The tool will display the data in a way useful for bringing out the valuable linkages in the descriptions and the structure of the descriptions.  It will support a form of faceting to navigate the result set and database.  We will make the resulting code available for free download so that others can experiment with and build on the tool. 
Contractor: Influx Library User Experience. 
Product expected: Around the end of February 2015.

Profile Editor

Summary
The BIBFRAME Editor downloadable from the BIBFRAME website needs profiles to guide the input process. Otherwise users are confronted with all of the possible properties in BIBFRAME, an inefficient mode of operation. This web-based application (basic easy-to-use, HTML-based interface) will enable creation and editing of BIBFRAME Profiles, thus limiting the interface properties initially on the screen to those the user needs for the situation, for example, type of resource (e.g., map, music, book) or the type of description (e.g., preliminary, brief, full)  The Profile Editor will be able to list all local BIBFRAME Profiles, to load one such Profile, to modify the Profile and to save the Profile, in addition to creating new BIBFRAME Profiles and saving them. 
Contractor:  Smart Software Solutions 
Product expected: Around the end of February 2015.

SRU/BIBFRAME Search

summary:
This project will enable the open source software, Metaproxy, to retrieve data from a BIBFRAME-based triple store data base.   This will enable the Library of Congress to determine the issues and enhancements needed for the SRU standard search protocol and its query language Contextual Query Language (CQL). We want to gather information and experience concerning the natural working relationship between SRU and BIBFRAME.  The project will involve enhancement of Metaproxy’s SRU search processing and retrieval component, thus allowing anyone to run Metaproxy in front of an SRU (or Z39.50) client to search a remote BIBFRAME/SPARQL store.  Specifically, it would also allow the Library of Congress to run their Metaproxy front-end in front of their own triple store.
Contractor: Indexdata 
Product expected: Around the end of January 2015.