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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3 July 2005

OCLC’s FictionFinder

Filed under: Implementations, OCLC — William Denton @ 8:00 am

Another example of FRBR in action is OCLC’s FictionFinder experiment. Try searching for “the hound of the baskervilles” as a title there. When I did, it found thirty-seven works, the first nine of which weren’t quite right, but the tenth one had 386 versions in 34 languages. You can narrow it down by language, then browse a list of manifestations, and look at detailed information about one.

FictionFinder: A FRBR-based prototype for fiction in WorldCat explains more about it. Diane Vizine-Goetz gave a talk about it at the 2004 ALA conference, and her slides are online: FictionFinder: A FRBR works-based prototype.