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).
FRBR, and the search engine Endeca, turn up in the minutes of a web committee at Bryn Mawr, the American women’s university where Katharine Hepburn and Edna Krabappel studied: “We briefly discussed FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records), a potential solution for displaying catalog search results in a hierarchical order, although there are concerns whether this will ever be a realistic option.”