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Dublin Core announces openWEMI for community review
openWEMI is an RDF vocabulary based on the concepts of Work, Expression,
Manifestation, and Item (WEMI) that were first introduced in the
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) document
produced by a working group of the International Federation of Library
Associations (IFLA). That work and subsequent versions form the
theoretical basis for library catalog metadata.
This DCMI work product defines a minimally constrained set of classes
and properties that can be used in a variety of contexts. Unlike the
IFLA work, openWEMI elements are purposely defined without reference to
library catalog functions. Because the openWEMI elements are defined
broadly and with minimal constraints, metadata models are likely to use
openWEMI elements as superclasses and super-properties to the more
specific resource types being defined.
The proposal includes the class Endeavor, which is the superclass to the
WEMI classes; this provides a semantic grouping of the WEMI entities.
openWEMI also includes properties (commonWork, commonExpression,
commonManifestation, commonItem) that can be used to make statements
about any resources defined in metadata, even those not organized around
WEMI concepts.
The openWEMI primer [1] introduces the vocabulary and its uses. The RDF
vocabulary has human-readable documentation [2] and a downloadable
turtle file [3]. Note that the vocabulary uses a temporary namespace
pending review and comments.
Comments, suggestions, and corrections can be addressed as github issues
[4] or on the openWEMI mailing list [5].
[1] https://dcmi.github.io/openwemi/
[2] https://dcmi.github.io/openwemi/ns/openWEMI.html
[3] https://dcmi.github.io/openwemi/ns/openWEMI.ttl
[4] https://github.com/dcmi/openwemi/issues
[5] https://lists.dublincore.org/mailman/listinfo/openwemi
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