The UNIMARC in RDF project: namespaces and linked data

The paper describes the work of a project to represent UNIMARC in Resource Description Framework (RDF), the basis of the Semantic Web and linked data. The current focus is on the UNIMARC Bibliographic format, and the development of an element set for the tags and subfields and of value vocabularies for the coded information block. The paper discusses issues identified by the project for improving the UNIMARC standard, and in particular its alignment with ISBD and other bibliographic standards such as RDA: resource description and access. The paper also gives examples of linked open data derived from UNIMARC records.