The PCC Working Group on Metadata Application Profiles is charged to:
- Oversee the creation and maintenance of PCC Metadata Application Profiles that meet the following criteria:
- Represent a “floor” for PCC metadata descriptions
- Are (to the extent possible) capable of bi-directional transformation between a human-readable format and machine-readable structures such as ShEx and SHACL that can be used to validate RDF graphs
- Support both MARC 21 and Linked Data workflows
- Are based on the following assumptions regarding PCC data:
- Transmitted and stored in various RDF serializations
- Resource Description and Access (RDA) as content standard
- BIBFRAME as the initial base data model
- Are “open”, i.e. that accept and store any triples not described in the schema
- As far as possible, use existing profiles (BSR/CSR, PCC Sinopia profiles) as a foundation for building out PCC profiles
- Cultivate expertise in Metadata Application Profile design and functionality within PCC
- Collaborate with the relevant PCC standing committees as needed
- Communicate with and perform outreach to stakeholders (library services platform and discovery service vendors, data remediation services, other creators of profiles in the cultural heritage sector)
- After the development of BIBFRAME base profiles, the group may explore other data models for PCC use, in consultation with PoCo via SCS chairs.
This site provides access to the following:
- Sinopia templates for cataloging according to PCC standards:
- books
- serials
- human-readable spreadsheet versions of those templates
- other MAPs as are ready for use (currently working on BSR for Official RDA)