Work, expression, manifestation, item … blog.
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).
Tim Spalding, of LibraryThing renown, posted While You Were Sleeping, thingISBN Is Getting Better. thingISBN is LibraryThing’s equivalent to OCLC’s xISBN: give either one an ISBN and it will give you back a bunch of ISBNs that are other manifestations of the same work. thingISBN’s coverage and comprehensiveness is improving, as Spalding shows. It’s all done by LibraryThing users clumping things together, and it’s free.