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).
I’ll have some more examples of my own to post next week. In the meantime I hope you’re thinking of some Lord of the Rings-related thing to describe with a work, an expression, a manifestation, and an item. Fame and possibly a button with the face of S.R. Ranganathan await you.
Sighted elsewhere:
I think this is the same thing as the displaying of other editions in OpenWorldCat which has been around since last year. Was it not visible through the “find in a library” feature at search engines? I don’t know. Perhaps someone from OCLC can clear things up. Searching Google for "find in a library" the three musketeers leads to http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/0679603328 and the FRBRish display there (in the Editions tab) isn’t new, though I could be mistaken.