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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xISSN

Posted by: William Denton, 31 October 2007 7:16 am
Categories: OCLC

You know about xISBN, the OCLC service that takes in an ISBN and gives back a list of ISBNs of other manifestations of the same work.

Now, meet xISSN: “To use the service, you submit an ISSN embedded in a URL to the xISSN server, and the server returns a list of associated ISSNs and relevant metadata. ISSNs for different editions of the same serial are grouped together. An ISSN group may also have historical relationships with other groups.”

The xISSN API looks nice, but you need a working WorldCat Affiliate ID to use it, so I can’t put up any nice sample links here.

Updates have been a little slow recently but I should be back on schedule now. I’ll catch up on all the exciting FRBR-related news of the last few weeks.