[image: Moon Logo] Moon (منصة القمر) Linked-Data Cataloging & Discovery First
Major Update • BIBFRAME 3.0.1
Library and House of Manuscripts of Al-Abbas Holy Shrine • Cataloguing
Center
We Updated the Moon, Reimagined.
Simpler to read. Deeper to catalog.
Moon Studio • The film 0:15
[image: Moon Studio · 15-Second Film Trailer (BIBFRAME 3.0.1 Cataloguing
Editor)] <https://mooon.site>
Moon Studio is a BIBFRAME 3.0.1 cataloguing editor with multi-institutional
collaboration.
Open mooon.site › <https://mooon.site>
We are proud to unveil the First Major Update to Moon at mooon.site: a
redesigned white-glass Public Catalog (OPAC), a full upgrade to BIBFRAME
3.0.1, a live two-way MARC 21 ↔ BIBFRAME Editor, a unified Entities Store
reconciled with the Library of Congress, VIAF, and Wikidata, and an
interactive learning hub written in clear, everyday words.
BIBFRAME 3.0.1 Live MARC 21 ↔ BIBFRAME LC • VIAF • Wikidata Learn by Doing
Explore the New Public Catalog › <https://mooon.site/opac.html?lang=en> Learn
BIBFRAME & Try Practice Mode ›
<https://mooon.site/moon/?practice=1&lang=en>
[image: Live Animated Tour of the New Moon Public Catalog (English UI)]
<https://mooon.site/opac.html?lang=en>
Live Animated Preview — Cycling through the English Public Catalog, Edition
Clustering, Work Details & Authors Directory
Update 1 Release Note mooon.site • Live Now
Dear Colleagues in the Library, Cataloging, and Manuscript Heritage
Community,
Since our initial unveiling of Moon, we have listened closely to
catalogers, university librarians, and manuscript specialists. One question
came up again and again: How do we transition to BIBFRAME and Linked Data
without forcing catalogers to abandon decades of MARC 21 expertise—and
without overwhelming readers with technical jargon?
In this First Major Update, we rebuilt the platform around a single guiding
principle: plain human language on the surface, rigorous linked-data
standards underneath. Here is a complete tour of what is live today at
mooon.site.
What’s New at a Glance:
• Redesigned Public Catalog (Moon OPAC) with automatic Work & Translation
clustering and physical shelf availability.
• Authors Directory (A–Z / أ–ي) enriched with Wikidata portraits,
biographies, and scholarly networks.
• Unified Moon Studio (BIBFRAME 3.0.1) with Bound-With (Majmūʿ) cataloging,
physical copy management, and ALA-LC romanization.
• Live Two-Way MARC 21 Editor to catalog in MARC 21 while watching BIBFRAME
3.0.1 update as you type.
• First-Class Entities Store with persistent URIs and one-click
reconciliation with LC, VIAF, and Wikidata.
• Learn BIBFRAME by Doing + “Where is my MARC field?” with a safe browser
Practice Sandbox.
Visual Tour of the First Update (English Interface) Everything New in Moon
at mooon.site
01 • The New Public Catalog (Moon OPAC) Calm White Spatial Glass & Smart
Clustering of Editions and Translations
Designed to feel as calm and intuitive as browsing a physical library, the
new Public Catalog automatically groups editions and translations of the
same book under one Work Hub instead of cluttering search results with
duplicates. Readers can filter immediately by physical shelf availability,
format, language, holding library, Gregorian publication year, or Hijri
Century—and save titles to their personal reading list or copy formatted
citations in one click.
[image: Moon Public OPAC Home in English]
The redesigned Public Catalog (Moon OPAC) in English featuring instant
search, curated shelves, and bilingual navigation.
[image: Smart Edition Clustering and Faceted Search in English]
“Group editions and translations” toggle with Availability, Format, and
Language filters.
[image: Book Detail Page and Citations in English]
Clean Work & Edition detail page with Save to list, Cite, Copy link, and
bibliographic details.
Open the New Public Catalog in English (mooon.site/opac.html?lang=en) ›
<https://mooon.site/opac.html?lang=en>
02 • Authors Directory & Scholarly Knowledge Pages Bilingual A–Z & Arabic
(أ–ي) Author Browse with Live Wikidata Portraits
Readers can now browse over 140 cataloged authors and contributors through
a dual Latin (A–Z) and Arabic (أ–ي) alphabetical index. Connected live
to Wikidata
and Wikimedia Commons, each author profile displays portraits, biographical
summaries, Hijri and Gregorian life dates, core subject areas,
teacher/student relationships, and every work they authored, edited, or
translated.
[image: Moon Authors Directory with Portraits in English]
The interactive Authors Directory in English featuring dual A–Z / أ–ي
navigation and automatic Wikidata author portraits.
Browse the Authors Directory (mooon.site/opac.html?lang=en&dir=persons) ›
<https://mooon.site/opac.html?lang=en&dir=persons>
03 • Unified Moon Studio (BIBFRAME 3.0.1) One Cataloging Workspace for
Works, Instances, Items, Bound-Withs & ALA-LC Script Tools
We retired separate, fragmented editors in favor of Moon Studio—a single,
unified workspace built on the latest Library of Congress BIBFRAME 3.0.1
specification. Catalogers can toggle between a Simple View (essential
fields only) and the Full View, backed by specialized heritage and daily
cataloging tools:
• ALA-LC Romanization & Reverse Arabic Script Suggestion: Generate ALA-LC
romanization via LC ScriptShifter or retrieve original Arabic script for
Latin-only records from LC and OCLC.
• Bound-With / Majmūʿ Cataloging: When a single physical volume binds
multiple treatises or manuscripts together, record each contained work with
its own title and author so every treatise is discoverable.
• ISBN Auto-Fill, Cover Upload & Physical Copies (Items): Populate records
from an ISBN, upload cover art, and manage shelf call numbers, barcodes,
loan status, and manuscript provenance/waqf notes.
• Smart Subject Suggestions & MARVA Diacritics Bar: Suggest subject
headings from related published records and insert ALA-LC transliteration
diacritics with a single click.
[image: Animated Walkthrough of Moon Studio in English]
Animated Studio Tour: Unified BIBFRAME 3.0.1 Editor → Live MARC 21 Editor →
MARC 21 Viewer → Entities Store.
[image: Moon Studio Unified BIBFRAME 3.0.1 Workspace in English]
Moon Studio (English UI): Cover uploader, Copies, Romanization (ALA-LC),
Majmūʿ (works in this volume), Suggest subjects, and MARVA Diacritics.
Try Moon Studio Live in Safe Practice Mode (English) ›
<https://mooon.site/moon/?practice=1&lang=en>
04 • Live MARC 21 ↔ BIBFRAME Editor & Viewer Catalog in Familiar MARC 21
Fields and Watch BIBFRAME 3.0.1 Build Live as You Type
Catalogers who think in MARC 21 can now catalog directly inside Moon
Studio’s Guided MARC 21 Editor, complete with visual builders for the Leader
(LDR) and 008 Fixed-Length Data Elements so you never have to memorize
character positions. As you type MARC tags and subfields, the side panel
previews the resulting BIBFRAME Work, Instance, and JSON-LD graph in real
time—with full import and export for .mrc (ISO 2709), MARCXML, and .mrk.
[image: Live MARC 21 to BIBFRAME Editor in English]
Guided MARC 21 Editor (English UI) with interactive LDR/008 builders on the
left and live “BIBFRAME (updates as you type)” preview on the right.
[image: Interactive MARC 21 Viewer in English]
Interactive MARC 21 Viewer with color-coded subfields, persistent $0
authority URIs, and one-click .mrc, MARCXML, and .mrk downloads.
05 • Entities Store & Global Authority Reconciliation Catalog Every Person,
Subject, Place & Work Hub Once—Linked to LC, VIAF & Wikidata
In the new Entities Store, every Person, Organization, Family, Work Hub,
Subject, Place, Genre, and Era is cataloged once with a permanent
resolvable URI (mooon.site/resource/...) referenced across all records.
Catalogers can generate Arabic & Latin name variants in one click (Ibn/Bin
alternation, direct vs. inverted order, and plain-letter forms) and
batch-reconcile or copy authority records directly from the Library of
Congress (LCNAF/LCSH), VIAF, and Wikidata.
[image: Moon Entities Store and Authority Management in English]
The Entities Store (English UI): persistent Moon URIs, one-click
name-variant generator, Work groups, and live LC, VIAF & Wikidata
reconciliation.
06 • Learn BIBFRAME by Doing + “Where is my MARC field?” 3-Minute Hands-On
Lessons & an Interactive Map for Every MARC 21 Tag
To make learning BIBFRAME effortless for students and working catalogers
alike, we launched two public, login-free guides:
1. Learn Moon (Learn BIBFRAME): Seven short, 3-minute lessons built around
a single classic example—Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Kalīlah wa-Dimnah—explaining
Work vs. Instance vs. Item, Translations & Hubs, Authority Names, Dual
Scripts, and Manuscripts, each paired with a button to try it immediately
in Safe Practice Mode.
2. Where is my MARC field?: A live interactive lookup table generated
directly from Moon’s converter covering 186 MARC 21 tags—type any tag (100,
245, 264, 650) to see exactly where it lands in BIBFRAME.
[image: Learn Moon Interactive Curriculum in English]
“Learn Moon” (English) — 7 bite-sized lessons using the classic example of
Kalīlah wa-Dimnah.
Open Interactive Lessons › <https://mooon.site/learn.html>
[image: Where is my MARC field in BIBFRAME (English)]
“Where is my MARC field?” (English) — live field-by-field MARC 21 to
BIBFRAME reference.
Open MARC Field Map › <https://mooon.site/marc.html>
07 • Open Linked-Data APIs, IIIF Manuscripts & AI Assistant (MCP) Resolvable
URIs, Public SPARQL, OAI-PMH, SRU & Model Context Protocol
Every published book and entity in Moon has a permanent URI supporting HTTP
content negotiation (JSON-LD, Turtle, RDF/XML, N-Triples, MARCXML, and ISO
2709 .mrc). The platform includes a public SPARQL Endpoint, OAI-PMH 2.0, SRU
1.2, a built-in IIIF Deep-Zoom Manuscript Viewer, full team review
workflows, and a native MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server so AI
assistants can search the catalog and draft validated BIBFRAME records.
[image: Moon Open Linked Data API Documentation in English]
Moon’s public Linked-Data API specification (mooon.site/api.html) detailing
Resolvable URIs, SPARQL, OAI-PMH, SRU, and bulk CC0 exports.
Explore the Open Linked-Data API Guide (mooon.site/api.html) ›
<https://mooon.site/api.html>
Experience the First Update Today at mooon.site
Whether you want to browse the new Public Catalog, learn BIBFRAME step by
step, or test-drive live cataloging in Moon Studio, everything is ready to
explore. For feedback, institutional partnerships, or cataloger account
requests, reach out directly at eshak100falah_at_gmail.com
<eshak100falah_at_gmail.com?subject=Moon%20Update%201%20-%20Feedback>.
Public Catalog (OPAC) › <https://mooon.site/opac.html?lang=en> Moon Studio
(Practice Mode) › <https://mooon.site/moon/?practice=1&lang=en>
Learn BIBFRAME Lessons <https://mooon.site/learn.html> • Where is my MARC
field? <https://mooon.site/marc.html> • Open Linked-Data API
<https://mooon.site/api.html>
[image: Moon Logo]
Ishaq Falih Almohammed (إسحاق فالح)
Cataloguing Center and Information Systems • Library and House of
Manuscripts of Al-Abbas Holy Shrine • Karbala, Iraq
Moon (منصة القمر) • Linked-Data Cataloging & Discovery for BIBFRAME 3.0.1 &
MARC 21 • mooon.site
Received on Tue Nov 10 2026 - 13:02:03 EST