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.


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FRBR/MARC on web4lib

Posted by: William Denton, 12 December 2005 7:26 am
Categories: MARC

FRBR got a brief mention on the web4lib mailing list last week. There was some discussion of MARC, and Alexander Johannesen said in response to Walt Crawford:

There are a number of “semantically richer” library formats about, but my own investigations seems to find that they’re all basically someone thinking about a schema more than thinking about a datamodel that might fit some richer scheme. (The exception here is FRBR, which falls into the pit of “it’s only a datamodel” which a lot of people want to retrofit into MARC (!!).)