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).
Lorcan Dempsey spoke last Thursday at the Reading 2.0 confab in San Francisco. You can get his Power Point slides, linked from his blog and read about his talk and the others, on the O’Reilly Radar blog. It looks like a great talk, and one part of it made quite an impression: links to OCLC’s Top 1000 Works are turning up all over the place. Tim O’Reilly talked about it on the Radar blog.