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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31 August 2006

Gradmann, rdfs:frbr

Filed under: Papers, Semantic Web — William Denton @ 7:23 am

Stefan Gradmann, author of “rdfs:frbr: Towards an Implementation Model for Library Catalogs Using Semantic Web Technology” which was in the special FRBR issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (39:3/4, 2005), has posted it to the E-LIS e-prints archive. (You’ll need to register to read it, which I think is new, but registration is free and easy.)

ABSTRACT: The paper sets out from a few basic observations (bibliographic information is still mostly part of the ‘hidden Web,’ library automation methods still have a low WWW-transparency, and take-up of FRBR has been rather slow) and continues taking a closer look at Semantic Web technology components. This results in a proposal for implementing FRBR as RDF-Schema and of RDF-based library catalogues built on such an approach. The contribution concludes with a discussion of selected strategic benefits resulting from such an approach.

If you’re new to this then you’ll also want to see Ian Davis and Richard Newman did about making an RDF schema for FRBR. Check out the other blog entries in the Semantic Web category, too.

(Seen on Catalogablog.)