Ontology and vocabulary support and BIBFRAME optimization

Sinopia is a bibliographic editor that is optimized for BIBFRAME, but supports the use of any ontology.

Ontology and vocabulary support

Sinopia templates can be configured using classes and properties from any ontology. See Setting up Templates for detailed information on how classes and properties are specified.
Sinopia uses its own vocabulary to define the structure of a template and the association of a resource with a template.
Sinopia uses the Questioning Authority service for lookups, thus supporting whatever vocabularies are available through Questioning Authority.

Sinopia is optimized for the BIBFRAME ontology in the following ways:

Sinopia includes an RDF-to-MARC conversion feature that assumes the RDF uses BIBFRAME.
Sinopia Search ranks results with title property more highly than other results, where "title" properties include those from BIBFRAME and from RDA. (See How to Search for details.)
Sinopia Search offers the choice of limiting your search in advance to BIBFRAME Works, Instances, or Items.
A template can have a lookup to Sinopia resources; this lookup can be configured to search several subsets of Sinopia resources by BIBFRAME class (Work, Instance, Item, AdminMetadata).
The Relationships tab displays BIBFRAME relationships among Works, Instances, and Items.
Sinopia Search will show a result's related resources, for certain BIBFRAME relationships. (in progress; see issue #3268)
The name of a resource will be prefixed with its BIBFRAME class in the Editor. (in progress; see issue #3126.
The Export to Catalog function only works with resources of class BIBFRAME Instance.