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).
Jonathan Rochkind noticed this schedule for the ALA Midwinter conference that starts this week lists the “FRBR Implementers Group” as meeting on Friday 19 January at 10:30 AM. It’s not listed on the ALA Midwinter wiki, though. If you know anything about it, please post a comment.
Here’s something you don’t see every day, but you probably will see more frequently: someone asks a question about a database (MySQL in this case) and query optimization, and in the code snippets you can see that the project uses FRBR. MySQL query Optimization Without Indexes is posted by someone from the Internet Book List (Steven Jeffrey, I assume), and if you look at the snippet you’ll see some Perl code that’s querying a database with table names such as frbr_work_author and frbr_work_genre. Interesting!