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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7 August 2007

Kristin Antelman in Michigan

Filed under: Blog Mentions, Conferences — William Denton @ 7:31 am

Kristin Antelman gets mentioned here every now and then (search for her name) because she writes and talks about FRBR. In June she was in Michigan and spoke about next generation catalogues, including a brief mention of FRBR.

As a case in point, Kristin asks the question: “What is an identifier?” Librarians have one idea of what it is: a title and an author string. But to web programmers, this is a hopelessly unreliable means of identifying unique objects - in a networked environment you really need some sort of URI.

That’s getting FRADdy!