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.


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LibraryThing helpers log

Posted by: William Denton, 7 March 2007 7:17 am
Categories: LibraryThing

The LibraryThing helpers log lists what helpful people at LibraryThing have been doing, including which works they’ve been grouping together (so that The Faber Book of Pop and Faber Book of Pop are known to be the same thing) and which authors they’ve been grouping together (so that Robert L. Stevenson and Robert Louis Stevenson are the same person). It would be interesting to take the works groupings, grab the MARC records of the relevant manifestations, and run them through OCLC’s FRBR Work-Set Algorithm (and similar rulesets) to see which kinds of matches are most commonly made and if any matches are made that aren’t covered by the algorithm.