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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Lindner on NASKO 2007, Green and Fallgren

Posted by: William Denton, 6 July 2007 7:08 am
Categories: Blog Mentions,Conferences

The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) had the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO) here in Toronto from 14-15 June 2007. I didn’t get to it, but blogger Mark Lindner did, and wrote up comments on the talks.

Here he quotes or paraphrases Rebecca Green, if I read it right, who with Nancy Fallgren wrote Anticipating New Media: A Faceted Classification of Material Types:

IFLA FRBR folks did some wonderful work in their documentation. They also blew a few things, some of which are because they wanted to keep it simple, some perhaps because they were too close to the issues and document, while others may have been due to a compromise … or a mixture. The Expression entity is one such failure.

I haven’t read “Anticipating New Media” yet, but it looks very interesting. It’s freely available, so go have a look and leave a comment.

All of the other conference papers are online, too.