AdminMetadata

How the record itself came to be, rather than what it describes.

Metadata about the metadata, especially provenance information

BIBFRAME's definition of bf:AdminMetadata , labelled “Administrative metadata”. The primer has a section on it.

Example

{
  "@type": [
    "AdminMetadata"
  ],
  "descriptionAuthentication": [
    {
      "@id": "http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/marcauthen/pcc"
    }
  ],
  "descriptionLanguage": [
    {
      "@id": "http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/languages/eng"
    }
  ]
}

Trimmed from a real record rather than written for the occasion, and checked against this definition by tests/test_examples.py. A wrong example is worse than none, because it is the first thing anyone copies.

Properties

Property	Takes	What BIBFRAME says it is
rdfs:label	Text	defined by RDF Schema
agent	Ref	Entity associated with a resource or element of description, such as the name of the entity responsible for the content or of the publication, printing, distribution, issue, release or production of a resource. (Associated agent)
date	Text	Date designation associated with a resource or element of description, such as date of title variation; year a degree was awarded; date associated with the publication, printing, distribution, issue, release or production of a resource. May be date typed.
status	Ref	Designation of the validity or position of something, such as indication that the classification number is canceled or invalid, circulation availability of an item, indication of whether the identifier is canceled or invalid.
derivedFrom	Ref	Meant to establish a link from a description that was derived from, perhaps via copy, another description; example: X description/metadata was derived from Y description/metadata (Source metadata)
descriptionConventions	Ref	Rules used for the descriptive content of the resource description
generationProcess	Ref	Indication of the program or process used to generate the description by application of a particular transformation (Description generation)
descriptionLevel	Ref	Designation of the descriptive content of the metadata

Every property here holds an array, and a property this definition does not name is still checked: it must be an array too. Naming a property buys a check on what its values look like, and nothing else.

The schema

https://bibframe-json.org/schema/linked/AdminMetadata.json is this definition on its own, and https://bibframe-json.org/schema/linked.json is the whole shape with every definition inlined. They are checked against each other over the conformance corpus, so either is safe to depend on.