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Librarian in Black waits for FRBR

Posted by: William Denton, 13 December 2005 7:17 am
Categories: Blog Mentions

In Authority Control in Library Thing, Sarah Houghton mentions FRBR in a post about authority control at Library Thing:

Users care about authority control. Why? Because it’s a pain in the butt to have to click on 7 slightly differing entries for Gabriel Garcia Marquez to find all the relevant items in the catalog. The same thing happens with title authority control. I can’t wait for FRBR to take hold in our catalogs…either that, or this user-level authority control. Anything would be better than the messes we have to deal with now.

When full FRBRosity is achieved, authority control will fix all these problems.

2 Comments »

  1. Wait, there’s more – now “work disambiguation” is in development.

    Comment by nichole — 14 February 2006 @ 10:35 am

  2. Oops, meant to refer you to LibraryThing’s developer’s latest post: http://www.librarything.com/blog/2006/02/work-disambiguation-and-ship-of.php

    Comment by nichole — 14 February 2006 @ 10:36 am

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