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).
Lars Aronsson sent an interesting e-mail to the ol-lib mailing list the other day. That’s where people talk about the librarianship aspects of Open Library.
Deadlock outlines a crazy chain of translations and adaptations of Sara Paretsky’s novel Deadlock. Things like that are good fun to consider in a FRBR way. “So this is an expression of that, and this is a whole new work, with these people and these corporate bodies involved …”