1. Report on recent activity of the IFLA Namespaces Task Group and the DCMI/RDA Task Group Gordon Dunsire Presented to the Semantic Web Special Interest Group, IFLA 2011, 18 Aug 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2. IFLA Namespaces Task Group Co-ordination and liaison of development of namespaces for IFLA (bibliographic) standards – RDF classes and properties with URIs – http://iflastandards.info/ns/ Representation from IFLA sections – Bibliography; Cataloguing; Classification & Indexing; Information Technology; Knowledge Management – FRBR Review Group; ISBD Review Group; ISBD/XML Study Group

3. Current namespaces (published) MulDiCat – Multilingual dictionary of cataloguing FRBRer – Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records entity-relationship model ISBD elements – International Standard Bibliographic Description ISBD Area 0 vocabularies – Content and Media types

4. Current namespaces (in preparation) FRBRoo – FRBR object-oriented model (with CIDOC-CRM) FRAD – Functional Requirements for Authority Data FRSAD – Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data UNIMARC ?

5. DCMI RDA Task Group Development of namespace for RDA – Resource Description and Access Representatives from JSC (Joint Steering Committee for RDA); Dublin Core Metadata Initiative; relation Semantic Web communities Some RDA vocabularies recently published Other vocabularies and element sets in preparation

6. Links http://iflastandards.info/ns/ – FRBRer; MulDiCat – (ISBD in preparation) http://metadataregistry.org/rdabrowse.htm – RDA element sets and vocabularies http://metadataregistry.org/ – Everything except MulDiCat gordon@gordondunsire.com