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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3 November 2006

Updated bibliography and FRBRoo

Filed under: IFLA — William Denton @ 7:09 am

Patrick Le Boeuf (past chair of the FRBR Review Group) sent out a pointer to the FRBR mailing list saying he’d just released an update to the FRBR Bibliography (1.4 MB RTF). There’s a new section at the end about the object-oriented formulation of FRBR, and it includes these links to a FRBRoo section of the CIDOC site:

FRBR uses an entity-relationship model (it has three different kinds of entities), and FRBRoo does it as an object-oriented model.

(I think it’s officially pronounced “ferber oh-oh” but I like to call it “ferberoo.”)