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.


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Bibliographic Ontology Specification Group

Posted by: William Denton, 27 July 2007 7:22 am
Categories: Semantic Web

Frédérick Giasson’s Modifications and Things to Consider is a sample of the e-mail going around the Bibliographic Ontology Specification Group. That’s where they talk about the Bibliographic Ontology Specification, which sometimes uses FRBR concepts in its arrangements.