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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code4lib thread on ranking

Posted by: William Denton, 12 April 2006 7:22 am
Categories: Implementations

Colleen Whitney posted to the code4lib mailing list yesterday: Question re: Ranking and FRBR. She asks, “In a retrieval environment that presents ranked results (ranked by record content, optionally boosted by circulation and/or holdings), how could/should FRBR-like record groupings be factored into ranking?” The whole thread is in the code4lib archives. Thom Hickey of OCLC says they add up all the holdings of all the manifestations of the given work. OCLC’s enormous WorldCat catalogue lets them to do things regular libraries can’t, and there’s more discussion about relevance rankings and, unavoidably, Google.