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).
I won’t post anything more until after Christmas. To help you pass the time, here’s FRBR Word Search #2 (35 KB PDF), a riotously amusing word search puzzle where you need to look for words like “obtain,” “aggregates,” and “ThingISBN.” For added frivolity, I added some names from Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time.
In case you missed it, here’s last year’s word search puzzle. It’s an annual FRBR Blog tradition!