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Paper on Australian National Bibliographic Database

Posted by: William Denton, 9 August 2005 7:23 am
Categories: Implementations, Papers

I missed pointing this out with the other Australian and AustLit stuff: The Australian National Bibliographic Database and the Functional Requirements for the Bibliographic Database (FRBR), by Bemal Rajapatirana and Roxanne Missingham, ALJ: the Australian Library Journal, February 2005, 54 (1): 31-42.

Methodology

To investigate the records on the ANBD which were related under the FRBR model two tests were devised. Two different algorithms were considered. The Library of Congress FRBR Display Tool was selected for these tests. The OCLC algorithm was not selected as it was not available at the time in a form that could be used to test a data file in this manner.

The first test was to identify the 100 most commonly occurring uniform and name-title index entries, in essence the 100 most commonly occurring work headings. Linked bibliographic records were then extracted and fed through the LC display tool. Once this was done, analysis occurred to extrapolate the number of records (or manifestations) per work, quantify missed items and identify any material type trends in the result set. The data collection included the complete set of bibliographic records pertaining to all works as well as sample subsets of records relating to single works. They were then processed with the LC display tool in order to compare the affects by analysing the results across specific genres.