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Amigos Library Services: FRBR-Applied WorldCat Comparison

Posted by: William Denton, 20 July 2007 7:24 am
Categories: OCLC

Amigos Library Services is new to me, but they’ve been around for quite a while as a group of libraries in the southwestern United States helping each other. Yesterday they announced FRBR-Applied WorldCat Comparison and said, “Individual subscribers now have the option of applying elements of the FRBR algorithm to your WorldCat comparison via the FirstSearch Administrative Module.” I’m not quite sure what that means, but there you have it.

2 Comments »

  1. They should ask themselves what it means that the FRBR-blog guy doesn’t understand it when they talk about FRBR…

    Comment by Tim — 23 July 2007 @ 10:15 pm

  2. Back in the early 1990s AMIGOS developed the AMIGOS Collection Analysis application that has evolved into the Collection Analysis Service that OCLC offers today. I wrote an article for OCLC Systems & Services describing the product at that time. One of the features was the ability to compare your collection to those of peer institutions. From what I understand, the new FRBR application would allow a library to conduct this comparison using a FRBR work set clustering technique, rather than a one-to-one comparison at the manifestation level.

    Comment by Sherry Vellucci — 27 July 2007 @ 9:34 am

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