Work, expression, manifestation, item … blog.
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).
Over the next few days I’m going to work through an example of putting together some of the tools available by superduping and FRBRizing Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
To begin with, here’s a handy Ruby script to find free MARC records with Z39.50. I’m going to use an adapted version of this to get MARC records for all of the superduped ISBNs. I’ll post the binary MARC file for your own use, so you needn’t collect them yourself.