Work, expression, manifestation, item … blog.
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).
Thom Hickey wrote FRBR and thematic indexes on Wednesday. It’s a note about beefing up the OCLC work-set algorithm by using thematic index numbers for musical works (e.g. Kochel numbers for Mozart) as found in MARC records.
I know you probably already follow Hickey’s blog, if it’s about FRBR, I’ll point to it.
For easy reference, here are all of the papers and presentations online from the Bibliotheca Universalis: How to Organize Chaos? conference last month.
OCLC’s Thom Hickey wrote a blog entry last Friday, Trump and more trump, that explains how the titles of a series of books by (or “by”) Donald Trump confuse the OCLC work-set algorithm. It thinks they’re all the same work, but they’re not. He suggests some ways around the problem, and if you can think of any more, he’d like to hear them.
Here are some highlights from last month. The big event was the IFLA conference.