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.