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).
The Working Group on FRBR/CRM Dialogue has a page on IFLA’s web site now.
“CIDOC CRM is the conceptual reference model for museum information, expressed in object-oriented formalism,” it explains, in case you were wondering. FRBR and CIDOC people are working to make an object-oriented version of FRBR, called FRBRoo. You can download a draft of their work and see minutes of meetings on their web page. This is interesting work.
(Seen on Catalogablog.)