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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15 March 2007

Patton: FRAD this month or next

Filed under: FRAD — William Denton @ 7:57 am

Last month Glenn Patton said on the FRBR mailing list, in response to a query, that a second draft of Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) would be available “in the next month or so.” I’ll be keeping an eye peeled for it and will post a link. The first draft was published in 2005 and the IFLA Working Group chaired by Patton has been going over all the comments and feeback.

If the name FRAD seems unknown but strangely familiar, it’s because you’re used to hearing about FRANAR (Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records) and FRAR (Functional Requirements for Authority Records). FRAD is the new name.

I’ve renamed the FRAR category here to FRAD to match the revised nomenclature. Check out previous posts in this category to find links to the earlier draft.