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).
In FRBR and Spimes (posted on his blog at the end of June), Bradley Allen says “it dawned on me that FRBR is a terrific framework for thinking about spime management.” A spime is “a currently-theoretical object that can be tracked through space and time throughout the lifetime of the object” (according to Wikipedia). Hmm!
The “Burroughs project” is his William S. Burroughs collection.