The Library of Congress officially launched its Bibliographic Framework Initiative in May 2011. The Initiative aims to re-envision and, in the long run, implement a new bibliographic environment for libraries that makes "the network" central and makes interconnectedness
commonplace.
The goal of this document is to provide a pattern for modeling both future resources and bibliographic assets traditionally encoded in MARC 21.
This document and model were developed under contract from the Library of Congress by a team from Zepheira composed of Eric Miller, Uche Ogbuji, Victoria Mueller and Kathy MacDougall.