1. Chair, IFLA Namespaces Technical Group; Chair-Elect, JSC/RDA
IFLA in RDF (+ RDA)
Gordon Dunsire
Chair, IFLA Namespaces Technical Group; Chair-Elect, JSC/RDA
Lightning presentation to NISO Bibliographic Roadmap meeting, April 15-16, Baltimore, MD, USA

2. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Maintaining bibliographic standards for over 40 years
International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)
Bibliographic description content standard
UNIMARC (ISO 2709)
Record format (Bibliographic, Authorities)
Functional Requirements family
FRBR, FRAD, FRSAD
Conceptual models based on user tasks
Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloguing (MulDiCat)
26 languages for multilingual cataloguing environment

3. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC)
Used world-wide
RDF representations developed since 2009
Open Metadata Registry used for RDF element sets and value vocabularies

4. Current status of vocabularies
Standard
Element sets
Value vocabs
Status
Maps
FRBRer 
Complete
RDA*
FRBRoo
CIDOC CRM
FRAD
FRSAD
FR consolidated
Ongoing
FR family*
ISBD
 (0-10)
UNIMARC*, RDA*
UNIMARC
 (10-100)
Just started
ISBD*
MulDiCat
IFLA standards*
RDA
FRBR*, ISBD*, MARC 21
[MARC 21]
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* Partial, under construction

5. Maps Maps based on “alignments”
Often kinda-sameAs
Mostly out-of-date
Synchronization between “the Standard” and the RDF representation
Contextual documentation vs encapsulated semantics
Expense?
Protocols between different maintenance organizations difficult to develop