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).
At the OCLC Members Council held earlier this week, Lorcan Dempsey (and Thom Hickey) talked about libraries and Web 2.0 (57 MB MP3). It’s an interesting talk, as you’d expect, and at the 18 minute mark they talk about (and demo) a new version of FictionFinder that’ll go live within weeks. Naturally Dempsey mentions FRBR.
Thanks to OCLC for putting this recording on their podcast feed.
UPDATE: I forgot to point out Lorcan Dempsey’s blog and Thom Hickey’s blog.
Bill — you’ll find some screenshots of the new FictionFinder in a presentation by Lorcan, “Web 2.0 and libraries: Some examples” [his ppt for Members Council] (13 Feb. 2006) at
Comment by Eric Childress — 19 February 2006 @ 8:08 pmhttp://www.oclc.org/research/presentations
Thanks, I’d never come across that page. Lots of good stuff there! Very interesting.
Comment by wtd — 19 February 2006 @ 8:37 pm