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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10 December 2007

Coyle, Interpretations of FRBR Classes

Filed under: Blog Mentions — William Denton @ 7:28 am

Karen Coyle’s Interpretations of FRBR Classes compares how FRBR, FRBR expressed in RDF, FRBRoo, and Martha Yee’s new approach organize things into basic concepts. FRBR has ten basic classes, its entities: work, expression, manifestation, item, person, corporate body, concept, object, event, place.

FRBR in RDF has 13 classes, FRBRoo has 23 classes and 18 sub-classes for 41 total, and Martha Yee set out 23 classes.

What’s the upshot? Well, it would take a good sit-down with all involved to hash out the differences, to understand what each group or person was thinking, and to see if we can formulate a theory of how one extends FRBR to meet one’s needs. If a number of people turn out to have the same needs, then it may be that the FRBR model itself needs to take in those ideas. The only way to work this out is to keep modeling and sharing. So I thank the three featured here for the extensive work that they have done in this area.