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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23 March 2006

More on Dempsey at Reading 2.0

Filed under: Conferences, OCLC — William Denton @ 7:28 am
  • Lorcan Dempsey: FRBR Presentations, a prequel, listing related presentations online.
  • Ed Summers: Reading 2.0, about the event. “It’s refreshing to see library technologies/concepts such as OpenURL, OCOinS, OAI-PMH, FRBR, METS and Dublin Core starting to be talked about in the context of a larger information environment.” I heartily agree. The particular interest of this blog is FRBR, of course, and the more search engines and Web 2.0 people and such hear about it, the better. It’s got to spread outside library catalogues, and it is.
  • LISNews.org: Top 1000 Library Books, Updated, more collateral linking thanks to Dempsey’s talk. Someone was inspired to include many quotes from Plutarch in the comments. The comments in the O’Reilly Radar post Top 1000 Books in Library Collections are more interesting.

All the excitement of the FRBR Challenge left me rather enervated, but my summary of it will be posted soon.