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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23 January 2008

Schwartz, RDA update at ALA midwinter

Filed under: Blog Mentions, Conferences — William Denton @ 7:08 am

Over at her blog Cataloging Futures (which I think of as Cataloguing Futures), Christine Schwartz posted Resource Description and Access (RDA) Update Forum last week, covering an ALA conference session about what’s going on with Resource Description and Access (the new FRBR- and FRAD-based cataloguing rules now being written). This’ll give you the bird’s eye lowdown on all that. If you think it’s confusing following what’s going on with how RDA is developing, imagine being one of the people writing it!