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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Audio: Access 2005 Hackfest mention of FRBR

Posted by: William Denton, 5 January 2006 7:58 am
Categories: Audio/Video, Conferences

I’ve been listening to audio recordings of presentations from the Access 2005 conference in Alberta. Lots of code4lib people were there, and the talks were really interesting and filled with great ideas and reports of fascinating work.

FRBR is mentioned briefly in Hackfest II Results (5.8 MB MP3), at about 04:20 minutes in. Someone (I’m not sure who) is describing a project they worked on: a MARC wiki. “We also saw this working as a bit of a FRBRization tool, so if you have a book, you know, what we really care about is the work, probably, so we would assign all the ISBNs for a particular work, so then we can start querying this thing and getting back ISBNs, ISSNs, you know, we could have ISSN concordance, that sort of thing as well.”

It’s the barest mention of FRBR, granted, but it deserves a mention. There’s nothing else FRBRy in the talks that I’ve heard, but I recommend looking them over and listening to a few.