ProvisionActivity

A publication, distribution or manufacture: who, where and when.

Information about the agent or place relating to the publication, printing, distribution, issue, release, or production of a resource

BIBFRAME's definition of bf:ProvisionActivity , labelled “Provider entity”. The primer has a section on it.

Example

{
  "@type": [
    "ProvisionActivity",
    "Publication"
  ],
  "bflc:simplePlace": [
    "Delhi, India"
  ],
  "bflc:simpleAgent": [
    "New Bharatiya Book Corporation"
  ],
  "bflc:simpleDate": [
    "2026"
  ]
}

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
place	Ref	Geographic location or place entity associated with a resource or element of description, such as the place associated with the publication, printing, distribution, issue, release or production of a resource, place of an event.
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.
bflc:simpleDate	Text	defined by the BIBFRAME LC extension
bflc:simplePlace	Text	defined by the BIBFRAME LC extension
bflc:simpleAgent	Text	defined by the BIBFRAME LC extension
bflc:simpleStatement	Text	defined by the BIBFRAME LC extension

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/ProvisionActivity.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.