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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31 July 2007

Mak, The Importance of FRBR

Filed under: Blog Mentions — William Denton @ 7:28 am

Colette Mak’s The Importance of FRBR makes the good point that one of the important reasons for using FRBR is to avoid confusion about all the different Harry Potter editions. She did this two-page introduction to FRBR (61 KB PDF) for libraries in her state.

I used Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in an example, and Ian Davis turned it into RDF. I hope to do even more FRBRization of Harry Potter. The books (and movies, and soundtracks, and games, etc.) are a large but finite set of things to organize, all from the last ten years, so they present interesting but surmountable challenges.