Belgian implementation
A quote from a press release titled Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium sees a VITAL solution for their digital repository needs:
Blacksburg, VA — VTLS is proud to announce that the Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium has purchased VITAL as their solution to provide a digital/institutional repository.
Serving as a test site for the 2.1 version in their use of this new ground breaking product, they joined an elite group of institutions around the world. No other repository solution offers the combination of rich functionality, vendor supported open source components and powerful workflow and search tools.
The Universite has a long tradition of being a pioneer in the use of cutting-edge automation products, having served as one of the first libraries to use VIRTUA and later the first site to run a production version of FRBR.
I’m not sure what they mean by “the first site to run a production version of FRBR.” I went to Catalogue des Bibliothèques de l’UCL and searched and looked at some Alexandre Dumas books, but didn’t see anything FRBRish. My French isn’t that good, though. Perhaps one of you who reads French can investigate? Maybe it’s just vendor hype.
I’ve found something FRBRish on the UCL website.
Comment by Mary Heckman — 23 January 2006 @ 6:02 pmIf you search Shakespeare as author and then
choose the largest result set (95 or so items),
checking those you’ll find “FRBR Tree” as a choice
for several items (it’s at far left). From the main
results screen if you choose the entry for a Midsummer
night’s dream, again you have the choice to see either
the MARC record or a FRBR tree. I read on the VTLS website
that the UCL catalog is a combination of FRBR and
non-FRBR, so apparently one has to happen upon a FRBRish section!
Thanks for finding that–I’d never have noticed. If anyone else wants to look for it, use the “Catalogue” link in the left-hand menu, and search for “shakespeare” as auteur (the default). Then you’ll see what’s described above. Very interesting!
Comment by wtd — 23 January 2006 @ 11:38 pmI felt onto your commentary.
Our catalog is a mix odf FRBR and non FRBR records…
Dumas is something which has not bee ferberized…
You can have a look to:
1. Connect to the English UCL catalog :
http://bib.sipr.ucl.ac.be/cgi-bin/chameleon?skin=wucl&inst=0&lng=en
EXAMPLE #1
2. Do a title search on: eloge de la folie
3. Select take the first record in the record list with a hit count that is not zero
5. Click on record tree to see FRBR tree.
6. Select “dutch” and see manifestation displays belonging to the consortium libraries. Click on the various manifestations.
7. Expand the FRBR tree by clicking on the + sign. French has the most enteries. Play with it by opening and closing + and – signs.
8. Open the French books
9. Select the following manifestation entry: L’éloge de la folie / – - Verda, [19--?] – 281 p. – (It is the last one in the list). Look at the bottom of the screen.
10. Click on items(3) – it has three copies.
Example #2
11. Title search on:
-Also sprach Zarathustra
12. Select the first entry on the tile list
13. Chanson de Roland (With work to work relationships)
14. Take the entry with 14 hits (you will have to click to next set) and click on the thirteenth record (13)
Example #3
Communauté apostolique
Click on the first entry
There is one record in Japanese here
Example #4
Comment by antoinette Lemaire — 25 February 2008 @ 11:49 amAuthor search on
Zola, emile
take the entry: Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 Germinal