Principles

• 1. It is a web vocabulary.
• 2. It supports Linked Data principles and practices (http://www.w3.org/TR/ld-bp/).
• 3. It is used to describe entities and relationships that are:
  • a. not covered by Schema.org but matter to those that are interested in the wider bibliographic domain.
  • b. part of a bibliographic domain model that also includes select entities and relationships from Schema.org and other popular web vocabularies.
  • c. produced and consumed by applications, services, and processes (e.g., search engines)

• 4. It helps promote and/or does not interfere with consumption of bibliographic data by the wider web, e.g. search engines, wikidata, etc.
• 5. It has an open world view of other vocabularies.
• 6. It is guided by community members and managed by an appointed editor.
• 7. It is well and consistently documented on the web and that documentation is easy and open to navigate and access.
• 8. It has established processes for change.