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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14 June 2006

Wikicat

Filed under: Implementations — William Denton @ 7:23 am

Will Wikipedia lead to a large, open FRBR implementation?

From Wikicat, written by Wikipedia user Jleybov:

Wikicat is the bibliographic catalog used by the Wikicite and WikiTextrose projects. It will be implemented as a Wikidata dataset using a datamodel design based upon IFLA’s Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), the various ISBD standards, the Library of Congress’s MARC 21 specification, and the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules‘ The Logical Structure of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules.

The page describes the four FRBR Group 1 entities with a familiar illustration and some examples. The Wikicat Technical Design page has more.

Wikipedia’s making a big push to add citations and sources to all its articles. That’s a massive citation database, much of which will have its own Wikipedia pages: authors, books, periodicals, etc. FRBR can be of great use in organizing it all. Another non-library project that sees how useful FRBR can be! Since it’s a Wikipedia project it’s open to anyone, so if you’re interested, get involved.