The BIBFRAME standard (v. 2.7) lays out four types of metadata captured as administrative data associated with a resource.

• Creation of a resource

• Updating a resource

• Converting a MARC record into a resource

• General (other) metadata

The scope of this card is limited to administrative data defined for “General (other) metadata” associated with a resource

General (other) metadata

• Ontology version → bf:descriptionLevel

• Encoding level → Leader byte 17 | bflc:encodingLevel

• Description conventions → Leader byte 18 and MARC 040 $e | bf:descriptionConventions

• Local system number → MARC 001 and bf:identifiedBy/Local | MARC 003 and bf:agent

• Language of cataloging → MARC 040 $b | bf:descriptionLanguage

• Authentication code → MARC 042 $a | bf:descriptionAuthorization

Example from BIBFRAME standard documentation

<bf:adminMetadata>

<bf:AdminMetadata>

<bf:descriptionLevel rdf:resource=”http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-3-0/”/>

<bflc:encodingLevel>

<bflc:EncodingLevel rdf:about=”http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/menclvl/f”>

<rdfs:labe>full</rdfs:label>

</bflc:EncodingLevel>

</bflc:encodingLevel>

<bf:descriptionConventions>

<bf: DescriptionConventions rdf:about=”http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/descriptionConventions/isbd”>

<bf:code>isbd</bf:code>

</bf:DescriptionConventions>

</bf:descriptionConventions>

<bf:identifiedBy>

<bf:Local>

<rdf:value>23063055</rdf:value>

<bf:assigner>

<bf:Agent rdf:about=”http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/organizations/dlc”>

<bf:code>DLC</bf:code>

</bf:Agent>

</bf:assigner>

</bf:Local>

</bf:identifiedBy>

<bf:descriptionLanguage>

<bf:Language rdf:about=”http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/languages/eng”>

</bf:descriptionLanguage>

<bf:descriptionConventions>

<bf:DescriptionConventions rdf:about=”http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/descriptionConventions/rda”>

<bf:code>rda</bf:code>

</bf:DescriptionConventions>

</bf:descriptionConventions>

<bf:descriptionAuthentication>

<bf:DescriptionAuthentication>

<bf:DescriptionAuthentication rdf:about=”http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/marcauthen/pcc”>

<bf:code>pcc</bf:code>

</bf:DescriptionAuthentication>

</bf:descriptionAuthentication>

</bf:AdminMetadata>

</bf:adminMetadata>