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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14 September 2005

What if Google started using FRBR?

Filed under: Uncategorized — William Denton @ 7:50 am

Google, as you undoubtedly know, has been doing big things and seems to have plans for massive projects. The FRBR world is thinking about how to handle digital objects, complicated aggregates like web sites, and so on. What if Google started using FRBR concepts to shape how they organize information? I don’t know what they’d do, but by Jupiter it’d be interesting. And if they exposed an API so that other people could use it, who knows what would emerge. Leave a comment with a suggestion or idea, if you have one.

(Of course, any other search engine, or the Internet Archive, or Amazon.com, could have an equally interesting effect.)