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).
Late last year Dan Connolly of the W3C posted frbr:embodiment is enough without frbr:embodimentOf, no? after reading Ian Davis’s FRBR and RDF. There’s a link to this W3C Semantic Web wiki page about hasPropertyOf, which says, “Some ontologies, e.g. a FRBR ontology go so far as to coin pairs embodiment and embodimentOf.”