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).
A quick note: the National Library of Sweden, the Royal Library, sent a copy of their comments on FRAR to the FRBR mailing list.
[W]e are very impressed with your clarifying and interesting report which has been a pleasure to study.
Their comments, about the amount and purpose of information being stored about individuals, will soon make it into the mailing list archive, which is linked over on the left.
Catalogablog pointed out that the American Library Association’s Association for Library Collections and Technical Services’ Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access Task Force to Review the Draft Functional Requirements for Authority Records (FRAR), or the ALA ALCTS CC:DA TFRD FRAR as my friends and I call it, has released their Comments on FRAR (63 KB PDF).
We find the document to be generally acceptable although at times not intuitive or easily grasped.
As mentioned here in August, the FRAR draft is open for comment until tomorrow. Last call to send your comment to Glenn Patton.
The CC:DA also has a Task Force on FRBR Terminology that keeps on eye on that for the ALA.