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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worldcat.org

Posted by: William Denton, 15 August 2006 7:15 am
Categories: Implementations,OCLC

It’s probably no news to you that worldcat.org is now open: all of the OCLC’s enormous union catalogue, WorldCat, is available for your searching. It has lots of features, so explore it if you haven’t already. The editions/manifestations groupings are there as before: look at The Three Musketeers (the 1991 Oxford World’s Classics manifestation, ISBN 0192827510) and follow the “Editions” tab to see other manifestations of the same work. If you browse around or search you’ll see faceted search refinements on the left-hand side and language facets in a top navigation bar. A fantastic resource. Congratulations to OCLC for their work on this.