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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Bibliotheca Universalis: conference this week

Posted by: William Denton, 8 August 2005 7:44 am
Categories: Conferences, IFLA

Bibliotheca Universalis: How to Organize Chaos? is a satellite meeting going on this Thursday and Friday before the annual IFLA conference that starts Saturday. It is meant “to extend the present FRBR and FRAR situation outside the circle of the enthusiasts, and show the significant potentials in sharing information through the FRBR ideas. In the seminar, the background and many practical implementations will be presented.” It sounds great and I wish I was there in Finland. The program of events and presentations includes presentations titled:

  • To the Basics: Is It Possible to Organise All Information?
  • Metadata in Relation to FRBR
  • Structuring the Catalogue According to FRBR User Tasks: Collocation and Linking
  • Bibliotheca Universalis, the creation of Conrad Gessner (1516-1565), Father of Bibliography and Monster of Science

If slides or papers from the conference are put online, I’ll be sure to link to them. Anything about implementations would be especially interesting. Attendees are welcome to leave comments!