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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4 March 2006

LibraryThing Google group

Filed under: Blog Mentions, LibraryThing — William Denton @ 7:13 am

There’s some discussion in the LibraryThing Google group by people combining manifestations into works, and combining other things, such as variations of Cervantes’ name to gather all the versions of Don Quixote together. Other things are discussed on the list, of course, but if you want to listen in on people FRBRizing a catalogue, you can do it there.

And don’t miss this by Steve Oberg, at Family Man Librarian: LibraryThing and Cataloging Nirvana, er, FRBR, which also points to the Google group. I haven’t tried combining a work yet but when I do I’ll grab some screenshots.