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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One year ago

Posted by: William Denton, 4 May 2006 7:35 am
Categories: Conferences

It’s one year since the OCLC FRBR Workshop. I had a very good time there. I don’t have any grand thoughts about what’s happened to FRBR in the year since then, but I think everyone left feeling inspired and eager. The people I met, such as Patrick Le Boeuf, Pat Riva, Barbara Tillett, Jennifer Bowen, Jenn Riley, Thom Hickey, Lorcan Dempsey, Glenn Patton, and others, will all be familiar to readers of this blog: they speak at conferences, they run organizations and committees, they have blogs, and they all talk about, work with, and promote FRBR. FRBR hasn’t made it into catalogues and online book and music stores around the world yet, but things are moving along, even if slowly. Implementations at places like LibraryThing are exciting, and people outside the library and book business are taking an interest.

I’m having some computer problems, so I don’t expect to post anything more this week.