Abstract
This project seeks to assess the Canadian library community’s understanding of and readiness for the transition from the MARC format to the BIBFRAME model. Data were collected using a survey distributed in English and French to a stratified random sample of 1,200 Canadian libraries. Results indicate that knowledge of BIBFRAME is low among respondents and that most of the libraries surveyed do not know enough about BIBFRAME to consider planning a transition at this point.
Alexandre Fortier
Library of Parliament
Alexandre Fortier is the Metadata and Taxonomy Librarian at the Library of Parliament where he manages the library’s taxonomy and is responsible for developing, evaluating and making recommendations for the implementation and use of the metadata describing the Library’s resources. He also teaches subject analysis and metadata development at University of Ottawa.
Heather J. Pretty
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Heather Pretty is a Cataloguing Librarian at Memorial University of Newfoundland where her primary responsibilities include catalogue maintenance and authorities. In addition, Heather is coordinator of the Atlantic Canada Funnel of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO), an At-Large Member of the PCC Policy Committee, and Chair of the Canadian BIBFRAME Readiness Task Force.
Daniel B. Scott
Laurentian University & McGill University
Daniel B. Scott is an Associate Librarian at Laurentian University and a PhD student at McGill University. His current research focuses on supporting exploratory search with linked open data, building on his previous work to extend the schema.org vocabulary for library metadata and to integrate Wikidata entity card support in Evergreen.
Olivier Spéciel
Services Documentaires Multimédia Inc.
Olivier Spéciel is a librarian and works as Director, IT and innovations at SDM, a nonprofit organization that provides technology services, bibliographic and authority databases to the library community. He is currently a member of the Canadian BIBFRAME Readiness Task Force.