Kent State FRBR project does Delphi study
Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba, of the Kent State School of Library and Information Science, are running a three-year project on FRBR-Based Systems to Effectively Support User Tasks and Facilitate Information Seeking. They asked me to post this to you all:
Dear Colleagues:
During spring and early summer of 2007, we conducted a Delphi study on critical FRBR issues as part of an IMLS-funded project concerning the research and development of FRBR-based retrieval systems. We would like to share the major findings that are available at http://frbr.slis.kent.edu.
We hope the findings may contribute to the ongoing discussion on the recently released report by the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control.
Sincerely,
Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba
School of Library and Information Science
Kent State University
I was part of the study and they sent me the report, but it’s not public yet. However, you can read these to see some of what they’ve found:
- Critical Issues and Challenges Facing FRBR Research and Practice (79 KB PDF) from that ASIST Bulletin issue last August
- Major Issues Facing FRBR Research and Practice Identified in a Delphi Study (49 KB PDF)
Work on the project continues, and they’ll be writing up more about the Delphi study. Interesting stuff.