BIBFRAME stands for _______.

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Answer 1

The correct answer is the Bibliographic framework:

Key Points

BIBFRAME;
- The bibliographic framework is a model for bibliographic description.
- BIBFRAME was designed to replace MARC standards.
- Library of congress released in Nov. 2012 BIBFRAME.
- Version 2.0 was released in 2016.
- The national library of Sweden was the first to introduce a full transition to BIBFRAME in 2018.
- BIBFRAME is expressed in RDF and based on three categories of abstraction (work, instance, item), with three additional classes (agent, subject, event) that relate to the core categories.
- The BIBFRAME model includes a serial entity for journals, magazines, and other periodicals.
- Ex Libris published a roadmap to implement BIBFRAME in its library systems, which includes a MARC-to-BIBFRAME transformation.

Additional Information

Resource Description and Access:
- Resource Description and Access (RDA) is a standard for descriptive cataloging initially released in June 2010, providing instructions and guidelines on formulating bibliographic data.
- RDA is the successor to Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2).
- RDA emerged from the International Conference on the Principles & Future Development of AACR held in Toronto in 1997.