The FRBR Blog

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).

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Filed under: Conferences, Library of Congress — William Denton @ 7:52 am

(The Pride and Prejudice example took longer than expected to recreate and document, but it should be up tomorrow.)

Structures and Standards for Bibliographic Data, the second meeting of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (WoGroFuBiCo) took place last Wednesday. Naturally FRBR came up, along with lots of other issues, so here are a few links to get you started.

Mark Lindner’s LC Working Group - Structures and Standards, Part 1 - Welcome is the first of a series of blog posts reporting on what the speakers said that way. Work your way through.
Diane Hillmann’s slides for her talk Structures and Standards for Our Bibliographic Future are up.