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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26 June 2006

Object-oriented FRBR coming soon

Filed under: IFLA, Specifications — William Denton @ 7:16 am

“FRBR/CRM harmonization” has been underway for a while. That’s a project to bring together FRBR and the Conceptual Reference Model of the Committee on Documentation of the International Council of Museums. It will present FRBR as an object-oriented model instead of the entity-relationship model used in the Final Report.

Patrick Le Boeuf announced that a draft of the FRBR/CRM report was done. It’ll be available publicly soon. I don’t know exactly when, but I’ll certainly post a link to it here.