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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Hickey on FRBR implementers at ALA

Posted by: William Denton, 1 February 2007 7:42 am
Categories: Conferences, Implementations, OCLC

OCLC’s Thom Hickey saw Jonathan Rochkind’s report on the FRBR implementers meeting at the recent ALA conference and followed up on his own blog with more explanation of (to quote him) the differences of the groupings used for WorldCat.org, xISBN, and FictionFinder.