Design Assumptions
The input form was created under design assumptions that partly coincide and partly differ from those underlying RIMMF and the LC BIBFRAME Editor.
RDA cataloging: like RIMMF and the LC Editor, the cataloging standard is RDA. The form focuses on PCC core and also allows additional RDA elements.
Network level cataloging: unlike RIMMF and the LC Editor, it is assumed that works are created and maintained in a remote shared RDF database. In the absence of such a production database, WorldCat Works is used (sample work entity: http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1152638946).
Language tags: properties with literals (text) as values are given language tags, unlike RIMMF and the LC Editor.
Holdings information: holdings information with sufficient detail to support catalog displays is assumed to be required. This is unlike RIMMF, which following RDA has nothing, or the LC Editor.
Page layout: it is assumed that an input form should be relatively compact and display only needed elements while retaining flexibility to include additional RDA elements when required. To this end, a tab format is adopted along with menus to display more elements. This is unlike RIMMF, which uses comprehensive but long pages, or the LC Editor, which allows only PCC core elements.
RDA Input Form
It must be emphasized that the input form is a proof-of-concept experiment and not a production tool. Indeed, it falls far short of the features required in a production-level form: for example, due to programming limitations, URIs linking WEMI entities and URIs for names, subjects, etc. are completed manually.
The form is an XForms instance embedded in XHTML, running on a development server using eXist-db and XSLTForms. It is not publicly accessible.
The form has six tabs: one for each of the RDA classes Expression, Manifestation and Item, and another for relationship designators corresponding to these classes.
