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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15 July 2005

AustLit, W3C comments and updates

Filed under: Blog Mentions, Implementations, W3C — William Denton @ 7:52 am

Just to keep things rolling along and so you don’t miss anything, there are two recent comments I want to point out:

In a comment on Dan Brickely and the W3C, Karl Dubost from the W3C said, “It would be cool if you could explain how FRBR could be used in details for example to manage an album photo. That would be a concrete use case and would help people to develop the tools if all requirements are defined.” He included a couple of links to some W3C discussion about this last February. I’d never thought about applying FRBR to a photo album, but it’s a great challenge. Add a comment if you have one.

And in a comment on AustLit, Kerry Kilner, AustLit’s executive manager, left a comment saying anyone interested in FRBR is welcome to ask for the password for their permanent guest account. That’s very generous, and I’m certainly going to ask for it. You can get in touch with him through AustLit.

Kent Fitch, also from AustLit, was kind enough to send me an XML dump of how Souls in the Great Machine is represented in their system, and it’s wild viewing. It goes over twenty levels deep in some places, and has lots of <work>, <expression>, and <manifestation> tags. I’ll slurp it up into a Perl XML parser so I can examine it more. I like reading XML, but I have my limits.