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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Schwartz, RDA Takes FRBR Seriously

Posted by: William Denton, 21 August 2007 7:59 am
Categories: Blog Mentions,RDA

Christine Schwartz blogs at Cataloging Futures. She’s planning on doing some posts on the new RDA draft and FRBR, and she started yesterday with RDA Takes FRBR Seriously: Revised Chapter 6. She says “It’s thoroughly FRBRized,” and “Unfortunately, a heavy handed application of the FRBR conceptual model gives this chapter (and chapter 7) a theoretical tone. It’s hard to wade through and may be hard to apply on a day-to-day basis for cataloging/metadata creation.”

I’ll post links to any further FRBR-related stuff she posts, of course. You might want to follow it yourself, directly or through Planet Cataloging.

UPDATE: Today she’s posted RDA Takes FRBR Seriously: Revised Chapter 7.