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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22 July 2005

Martha Yee FRBRization paper

Filed under: Implementations, Papers — William Denton @ 7:32 am

Martha Yee, of UCLA, sent a note to the mailing list (see link on left) to say that a new paper of hers is now available for free at UCLA’s online repository. http://repositories.cdlib.org/postprints/715 will lead you to “FRBRization: A Method for Turning Online Public Finding Lists into Online Public Catalogs,” first published in Information Technology and Libraries 24 (3) earlier this year. It’s a very interesting nineteen pages, with lots of details and examples, and it includes a critique of four implementations.

ABSTRACT: Problems users are having searching for known works in current OPACs are summarized, and it is suggested that a better understanding of AACR2R/MARC 21 authority, bibliographic, and holdings records would allow us to FRBR-ize our current OPACs using existing records. The presence of work and expression identifiers in bibliographic and authority records is analyzed. Recommendations are made concerning better indexing and display of works and expression/manifestations. Questions are raised about the appropriateness for the creation of true catalogs of client-server technology which delivers records over the Internet.