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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4 December 2006

Theoretical Topics in FRBR

Filed under: Blog Mentions, Conferences — William Denton @ 7:15 am

I’m back, bearing a quote from one Sir James Murray: “The question is not whether we know a Widmerpool in our own lives, but whose Widmerpool are we?” But enough of A Dance to the Music of Time, and let’s get back to FRBR, noting that the twelve-volume sequence is FRBRistically challenging.

I hadn’t heard tell of it before now, but something interesting happened in Texas last month: the 2006 conference of the American Society of Information Science and Technology (known as ASIST). One of the sessions was Theoretical Topics in FRBR, with Allen Renear (moderator), Yunseon Choi, Jonathan Furner, and Jerome McDonough. Mark Lindner was there and wrote about it on his blog. Looks like it was an interesting session.