The FRBR Blog

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).

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Posted by: William Denton, 22 December 2005 7:05 am
Categories: Vendors

For fun, I checked to see what public coverage some makers of integrated library systems give FRBR on their web sites.

Search at Endeavor: nothing
Search at Innovative Interfaces: nothing
Search at Koha: nothing
Google search of Open-ILS: one blog comment pointing out OCLC’s FRBR work
Google search of Sirsi: three mentions on Stephen Abram’s blog, but nothing official
Search at Talis: twelve mentions on their Panlibus blog, but nothing on the main site
VTLS: a special FRBR page with twelve PowerPoint presentations. The winner!