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).
Happy new year to those of you who now write 2007 in your e-mail headers.
Patrick LeBoeuf’s FRBR: Hype or Cure-All (the special issue of Cataloging & Classification) is reviewed by Alan Danskin in Catalogue & Index (#154, Autumn 2006). The whole table of contents of that issue is online. I just found out about it because it’s mentioned in their new blog, which went live yesterday. Greetings!