RIMMF6

RIMMF6 is a continuing development of what began as RIMMF4.

(RIMMF5 was an experiment that was never released.)

Current release: 20260115

List of recent changes: changes6

RIMMF6 can be downloaded here:
setupRimmf6.exe

A portable installation of RIMMF6 can be downloaded here:
setupRimmf6.zip

The basics of RIMMF6 are somewhat similar to those in RIMMF3 (the latter of which has been extensively documented )

Below are topics (and details) that are exclusive to RIMMF6.

• Alternate Labels
• Accesspoint Builder Config
• Convert MARC to RDA
• Application Profiles
• Exporting/Importing RDA data
• Importing VES

RV (“Registry Viewer”) is a tool that we have developed over the years to help us navigate/understand/research/troubleshoot the RDA Registry.

The input to RV is the ntriples serialization of every RDA registry release.

The output consists of:

1. the element sets used by RIMMF6 (and RIMMF4 up to 2021)
2. many maps, supplied by the registry and by the author, applied to the registry data
3. various reports and data analyses
4. different views of the data
5. customizable filters, extracts, etc.
6. differencing tools that compare releases of RDA Registry

This utility is typically updated after each registry release; from there, updated registry is added to the next RIMMF6 release.

Download the latest RV update (5.4.6)
https://rimmf.com/data/rvinstall-546.exe

RIMMF4 (R4) began our attempt to model changes to RDA introduced by LRM and the 3R project.

Work on R4 began in 2017/2018.

The objectives/status of R4 are:

• replace the homegrown text output used by previous RIMMFs with an RDF ntriples serialization [complete]
• replace customized element tables with RDA Registry linked data [complete]
• support new RDA concepts: recording methods, nomens, machine-readable SES [complete]
• support data provenance using RDA itself [completed in R6]
• support application profile creation in RIMMF templates [completed in R6]
• separate the EI (entity index) from the discovery interface [to do]
• improve uri management which will be needed by triplestore cataloging [to do]
• conversion of RIMMF3 data folders to RDF [in progress as a separate app]
• develop an API for storing/sharing user-created vocabulary terms [beyond the scope of RIMMF]

R4 does not have any awareness of MARC. For MARC-to-RDA conversion RIMMF3 will be more useful ¹⁾.

RIMMF4 development has ended. It is continued by RIMMF6 (above).