Kemp, Catalog/Cataloging Changes and Web 2.0 Functionality
Rebecca Kemp has a paper coming out later this year, but, happily, we can download a copy now: Catalog/Cataloging Changes and Web 2.0 Functionality: New Directions for Serials (883 KB PDF) (The Serials Libarian 53:4).
ABSTRACT. This article presents an overview of some of the important recent developments in cataloging theory and practice and online catalog design. Changes in cataloging theory and practice include the incorporation of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records principles into catalogs, the new Resource Description and Access cataloging manual, and the new CONSER Standard Record. Web 2.0 functionalities and advances in search technology and results displays are influencing online catalog design. The paper ends with hypothetical scenarios in which a catalog, enhanced by the developments described, fulfills the tasks of finding serials articles and titles.
… The paper will be organized into four sections, the first of which will review recent changes in cataloging theory that have yet to be fully developed into cataloging practice, namely, the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). Introducing identifiers into serial records in accordance with FRBR entities will allow better collocation of like titles and differentiation between unlike titles. This section will conclude with a view of the potential serial “superwork record.”
(Thanks to Jonathan Rochkind for putting me wise to this. He recommends it.)