A weblog following developments around the world in FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.

Maintained by William Denton, Web Librarian at York University. Suggestions and comments welcome at wtd@pobox.com.


Confused? Try What Is FRBR? (2.8 MB PDF) by Barbara Tillett, or Jenn Riley's introduction. For more, see the basic reading list.

Books: FRBR: A Guide for the Perplexed by Robert Maxwell (ISBN 9780838909508) and Understanding FRBR: What It Is and How It Will Affect Our Retrieval Tools edited by Arlene Taylor (ISBN 9781591585091) (read my chapter FRBR and the History of Cataloging).

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5 May 2005

Christine Oliver: What Is FRBR and Why Is It Important?

Filed under: Conferences — William Denton @ 11:48 pm

Further to yesterday’s mention of Christine Oliver’s talk, here’s useful stuff from a talk she gave at the 2003 Canadian <Metadata> Forum on 19 September 2003:

With all that, you can just close your eyes and imagine you’re there.