More FRBR in Australia
New Frameworks for Resource Discovery and Delivery, by Judith Pearce with Janifer Gatenby, mentions FRBR: “The National Library of Australia plans to use FRBR to cluster related resources in the ANBD and to experiment with new technologies such as topic maps to exploit semantic relationships inherent in (or deducible from) the content being indexed.”
Sounds exciting! This page about Australian library databases says that the ANBD is “Australia’s largest single bibliographic resource with millions of entries for books, magazines and items in non-print or alternative print formats such as films, sound and video recordings (including captioned), maps, pictures, CDs, braille and talking books, music scores, computer files and electronic journals.” It has over 13,000,000 records for over 37,000,000 items. AustLit is a big project, and very well done, and this would carry on the work to a larger scale.