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).

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17 February 2006

Vendor chin-wags

Filed under: Conferences, Vendors — William Denton @ 7:13 am

A fortnight ago I made the rounds of the exhibit floor at the 2006 Ontario Library Association conference and asked some integrated library system/catalogue vendors about FRBR. A fellow at Innovative Interfaces said they’d been doing some work on it but then sort of pulled back, and were waiting, though they’d like to do more work on it if they could find someone to do it with. A woman at SirsiDynix took my card and said she’d have someone get in touch with me to give me an official answer. I’ll let you know when I hear more, from them or Innovative Interfaces.