appears_in: []
contact:
  email: khes@loc.gov
  name: Kirk Hess
contributor:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: 'The Bibframe vocabulary consists of RDF classes and properties used
  for the description of items cataloged principally by libraries, but may also be
  used to describe items cataloged by museums and archives. Classes include the three
  core classes - Work, Instance, and Item - in addition to many more classes to support
  description. Properties describe characteristics of the resource being described
  as well as relationships among resources. For example: one Work might be a "translation
  of" another Work; an Instance may be an "instance of" a particular Bibframe Work.
  Other properties describe attributes of Works and Instances. For example: the Bibframe
  property "subject" expresses an important attribute of a Work (what the Work is
  about), and the property "extent" (e.g. number of pages) expresses an attribute
  of an Instance.'
download_owl: https://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe.rdf
download_rdf: https://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe.rdf
example: DescriptionLevel
example_extras: []
homepage: https://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe.html
keywords:
- computer science
- miscellaneous
- ontology
- subject agnostic
license: CC0-1.0
mappings:
  aberowl: BIBFRAME
  bioportal: BIBFRAME
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.xj5egt
  tib: bf
name: Bibliographic Framework Initiative Vocabulary
namespace_in_lui: false
preferred_prefix: bibframe
prefix: bibframe
providers: []
publications: []
rdf_uri_format: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/$1
references:
- https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/
repository: https://github.com/lcnetdev/bibframe-ontology
synonyms:
- bf
uri_format: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/$1
