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.

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19 February 2007

Oliver, RDA and Ejournals

Filed under: Papers, Semantic Web — William Denton @ 7:01 am

Chris Oliver (a librarian at McGill University, ergo a colleague of Pat Riva, chair of the FRBR Review Group) has a paper called RDA and Ejournals in Journal of Electronic Resource Description & Access (vol 8).

Abstract RDA: Resource Description and Access is the new content standard that moves beyond the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules through its alignment with the conceptual frameworks expressed in Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Functional Requirements for Authority Records (FRAR). It addresses two major problems in bibliographic description: seriality and content versus carrier, and makes the description of ejournals a straightforward process.

I haven’t read it, but it looks like you just need to register to read the articles in this online journal. Why, I don’t know, but there you have it.