A weblog following developments around the world in FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.

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Audio: Clifford Lynch interview

Posted by: William Denton, 1 December 2005 7:29 am
Categories: Audio/Video

FRBR was mentioned glancingly in an interview done as part of a series by Talis. In Cliff Lynch on Digital Libraries and more, Talis’s Paul Miller interviews Clifford Lynch, and at about 23:30 in the audio file there’s this exchange:

Clifford Lynch: I think there’s also a recognition that some of the things that underpin a lot of what the library community’s done historically are going to be valuable service infrastructure — I’m thinking of name authority files and gazetteers — and it’s still an open question how we’re going to provision those as services and particularly as infrastructure services for other people to use in the digital world

Paul Miller: Yes. And you’re thinking there of things like OCLC’s FRBR service, for example.

Clifford Lynch: For example.

I assume that’s a reference to OCLC’s xISBN work.