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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Where to look for WoGroFuBiCo commentary

Posted by: William Denton, 5 December 2007 7:42 am
Categories: Blog Mentions,Library of Congress

FRBR-related discussion has exploded because of the report from the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. I can’t possibly keep up with it all, so here are some good places to go to see what people are saying, and have your own say:

Mailing lists: RDA-L, AUTOCAT (Gmane archive), NGC4LIB, possibly the FRBR mailing list which has been dormant for a while.

Web sites: These two aggregators will catch a lot: Planet Code4lib and Planet Cataloging. (There’s some overlap between them; this blog is on both.)

I’ll link to things of special interest over the next while, and perhaps try to post some batches of links. Right now, you’ll want to see Diane Hillmann’s comments on the WoGroFuBiCo report.

Add a comment if there’s another good place to keep up with all the excitement.