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).
This popped up on my screen: A 21st Century Look at an Ancient Concept: Understanding FRBR (direct link to the 2.6 MB PDF), a conference presentation by Anita Coleman, given in Arizona on 2 December 2004. Have a look at pages 34-36, which have a fresh view of the work-expression-manifestation-item hierarchy. There’s some interesting-looking material in the slides about scientific models, but not enough for me to make out what she talked about.