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).
Alexander Sigel dropped me some mail (which is always welcome) to point out something he’d put together when looking into topic maps and XTM: FRBR and XTM. Have a look, especially if you’re interested in RDF.
He suggested that perhaps FRBR had been discussed at TMRA 2005: International Workshop on Topic Map Research and Applications, but I didn’t see anything. If you know of something relevant, please let me know.
Just ran into this talk:
Hyun-Sil Lee, Yang-Seung Jeon, Sung-Kook Han. 2005 October 7. MARCXTM: topic maps modeling of MARC bibliographic information. In Topic Map Research and Applications. http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra05/PRES/SHY.ppt
There’s also a paper in the proceedings,
Lee, Hyun-Sil, Yang-Seung Jeon, and Sung-Kook Han. 2006. MARCXTM: Topic Maps Modeling of MARC Bibliographic Information. In: Charting the Topic Maps Research and Applications Landscape. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 3873). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11676904_21
Their talk concludes:
“XTM is inappropriate to represent MARC format due to its idiosyncratic structure and dependency between data elements.
Metadata models similar to Dublin Core or MODS are necessary for XTM modeling of MARC.
FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) framework is an attractive model for XTM modeling of bibliographic information system.”
Comment by Jodi Schneider — 5 May 2008 @ 12:19 am