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Mapping UNIMARC to BIBFRAME: The SHARE Catalogue Knowledge Base on Wikibase.cloud

  • Claudio Forziati
  • Alessandra Moi

SHARE Catalogue Mapping Knowledge Base is a project, hosted on Wikibase.Cloud, that aims to represent the mapping between the UNIMARC bibliographic format and the BIBFRAME ontology. This mapping, carried out by a librarian team between 2022 and 2023, is intended to enable SHARE Catalogue to adopt the Share Family's new LOD Platform, along with its bibliographic entity representation and the Linked Data Editor. The team also chose Wikibase technology to make the processed mapping accessible for widespread use in the professional community. Furthermore, the SHARE Catalogue team sought to experiment with a modeling of UNIMARC structured in statements, defining all the key elements of the format, their sources, their correspondence in external projects, and their matching with BIBFRAME specifications.

  • Keywords:
  • Wikibase,
  • Linked Open Data,
  • UNIMARC,
  • BIBFRAME,
  • SHARE Catalogue,
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Claudio Forziati

University of Naples Federico II, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-8976-0393

Alessandra Moi

@Cult, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-0104-4999

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  3. Forziati, Claudio, Annalisa Di Sabato, Rossella Molisso, e Chiara Mugnano. 2024. “La nuova LOD Platform di SHARE Catalogue: un’evoluzione nel segno delle pratiche collaborative della Share Family.” In Parsifal. Un modello di collaborazione bibliotecaria per condividere la conoscenza registrata, a cura di Silvano Danieli, 105-25. Firenze: Firenze University Press DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0356-2.14
  4. IFLA. 2022. “UNIMARC Bibliographic (3rd Ed.) Updates.” IFLA. <https://www.ifla.org/g/unimarc-rg/unimarc-bibliographic-3rd-edition-with-updates/>.
  5. Wikipedia. 2025. “Wiki.” <https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wiki&oldid=146124906>.
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Chapter Title

Mapping UNIMARC to BIBFRAME: The SHARE Catalogue Knowledge Base on Wikibase.cloud

Authors

Claudio Forziati, Alessandra Moi

Language

English

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2.09

Peer Reviewed

Publication Year

2026

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© 2026 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Bibliographic Information

Book Title

Wikidata e la ricerca. Condividere esperienze / Wikidata and Research. Sharing Experiences

Book Subtitle

Atti del Convegno, Firenze, 5-6 giugno 2025 / Conference proceedings, Florence, 5-6 June 2025

Editors

Elena Marangoni, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

378

Publication Year

2026

Copyright Information

© 2026 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

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Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2

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979-12-215-1009-6

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979-12-215-1010-2

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Studi e saggi

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2704-6478

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2704-5919

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