BIBFRAME

[1] The MARC Standards, which BIBFRAME seeks to replace, were developed by Henriette Avram[2] at the U.S. Library of Congress during the 1960s.

[3] A 2008 report from the Library of Congress wrote that MARC is "based on forty-year old techniques for data management and is out of step with programming styles of today.

[6] That November, the library released a more complete draft of the model, renamed BIBFRAME.

This represents an apparent break with FRBR and the FRBR-based Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloging code.

[11] The BIBFRAME model includes a serial entity for journals, magazines, and other periodicals.

Illustration of BIBFRAME 2.0 model, with three core levels of abstraction (in blue)—Work, Instance, Item—and three related classes (in orange)—Agent, Subject, Event.