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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Evergreen, oISBN

Posted by: William Denton, 8 February 2008 7:58 am
Categories: Vendors

Dan Scott and Mike Rylander, who work on Evergreen, the open source integrated library system, pointed me at some discussion about oISBN: “I thought I’d go ahead and plug our xISBN-like service, called oISBN, that exposes the metarecords that our MARC fingerprinting algorithm creates.”

The link in the old blog post doesn’t work because it was on a test server, but this link for 0767886739 works and gives back some XML.

Nothing’s been done on this since, but if you want to help, you know where to download the source code and start hacking …

ngc4lib: Browsing percentages / analytics

Posted by: William Denton, 7:10 am
Categories: Uncategorized

There’s an interesting thread on the ngc4lib mailing list, started by Tim (“Mr. LibraryThing”) Spalding’s Browsing percentages / analytics. The archive gets confused because some mailers break threading, but Dave Pattern follows up and says that by his measurements, in his library’s catalogue, 0.2% of people click on xISBN/thingISBN-generated related edition links. Jonathan Rochkind asks why Pattern dropped xISBN and went with thingISBN but, as I write this, Pattern is probably asleep and hasn’t replied yet. Jim Weinheimer mentioned the four user tasks.