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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Godfrey, FRBR and Metadata Decisions for Repository Users

Posted by: William Denton, 14 September 2007 7:15 am
Categories: Blog Mentions

Neil Godfrey, of the Metalogger blog, posts FRBR and Metadata Decisions for Respository Users, a good introduction to what FRBR means to someone who looks after an institutional repository.

Till now I have always tried to avoid anything that looked too heavily into FRBR discussion because it seemed too abstract and complex to mean anything to the here and now job on my desk. An article about a Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works (based on FRBR and the Dublin Core Abstract Model) also looked like it should be interesting but again I found myself wanting to relate it to my work but not seeing how to — yet.

But after DC-2007 I think I am beginning to see the light. It’s about positioning ourselves for the future. And the future is being introduced bit by bit now with work on RDA, and especially with the working together by RDA and DCMI now. It’s also about positioning repositories for the semantic web.