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).
RDA Online was announced on 2 July but I’m just getting around to posting about it. It’s a demo (a screencast) of how an online version of Resource Description and Access might look. I only watched half of a demo. There was nothing too exciting; it’s about what you’d expect when an enormous set of detailed rules is put online, with hyperlinked cross-references and so on.
What would be great is if access to this is free, but I assume it’ll cost money.