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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XTF

Posted by: William Denton, 9 March 2007 7:11 am
Categories: Implementations

XTF from the California Digital Library: “The CDL eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) is a flexible indexing and query tool that supports searching across collections of heterogeneous data and presents results in a highly configurable manner.”

XTF Experimental Features covers FRBR: “To implement FRBR in XTF, we chose to adapt the standard FRBR Work Set Algorithm to our purposes. In particular, we changed the method to dynamically determine work groups, rather than making this determination at index time. This allowed us to play with and tweak the algorithm without having to re-index the entire test collection (over 10 million records).”