The international BIBFRAME Interoperability Group (BIG) supports efficient and interoperable use of the BIBFRAME standard by establishing and sharing best practices between participants. Toward that goal, BIG’s SHACL/DCTAP subgroup implements machine actionable application profiles developed by the BIG Interlingua Subgroup. These profiles provide BIBFRAME adopters the ability to easily produce and make use of shareable BIBFRAME according to common data practices by entity type.
BIG BIBFRAME data guidelines (listed below) are recorded using Dublin Core Tabular Application Profiles (DCTAP) which can be converted to Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) for data validation. Currently, BIG has produced shapes for BIBFRAME for the following:
BIG plans to produce shapes for additional bibliographic formats in the future.
Want to explore more? BIG shapes can be tested using the Sinopia BIBFRAME Validation Tool, using these instructions.