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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19 May 2006

XC

Filed under: Blog Mentions, Implementations — William Denton @ 7:26 am

You may have heard about the new eXtensible Catalog (XC) that some people at the University of Rochester are cooking up. Those people are Ronald F. Dow (dean), David Lindahl (director of digital initiatives), Jennifer Bowen (head of cataloging) , and Nancy Fried (lead anthropologist). Lead anthropologist!

Jennifer Bowen is a name you’ll know from such articles as FRBR: Coming Soon to Your Library?. The FRBR aspect of XC is mentioned briefly in More on XC from David Lindahl, a short interview posted on the ACRL blog. He says one of the main goals of XC is to “investigate the benefits of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model in the context of a user centered design software project. We wanted to learn whether FRBR would address real end-user needs.”

They’re just getting started. I’ll report as things happen. Good luck to them!