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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Berg, Implementing FRBR: A Comparison of Two Relational Models

Posted by: William Denton, 4 September 2007 7:40 am
Categories: Papers

Jodi Schneider pointed out something Allen Renear recommends: Implementing FRBR: A Comparison of Two Relational Models: IFLA’s FRBR Model and Taniguchi’s Expression-Prioritized Model (558 KB PDF), a 2004 master’s thesis by Einar Silset Berg.

ABSTRACT: Two relational data models are implemented and compared. One is based on the FRBR model proposed by the IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, and the other is based on a model proposed by Professor Shoichi Taniguchi, entitled ”the expression-prioritized model”. The two models’ abilities to handle documents that consist of different types of component parts are discussed. The bibliographic data from the discussed documents are filled into the databases and the physical consequences are discussed. The results show that the expression-prioritized model might be an improvement of the FRBR model. It gives a smaller database with less redundancy, yet it can reflect the same aspects of a document as the FRBR model.