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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28 February 2008

Brewster Kahle: “Do this FRBR thing”

Filed under: Conferences, Open Library — William Denton @ 7:21 am

I’m not at Code4Lib 2008. I wish I was. Hello to anyone there!

Nicole Engard’s Code4Lib 2008: The Internet Archive and Karen Coombs’s Code4Lib Day 1 Morning Talks both report on the talk that Brewster Kahle (of the Internet Archive) gave.

Engard writes:

The next step according to Brewster is to build the catalog and “we finally need to do this FRBR thing - come on guys, it’s not that hard!!!” Even if the digital copy of the book isn’t available yet, it makes sense to provide pages for the book with catalog data that pulls information from sites like Amazon and other book information sites.

Coombs summarizes this part of his talk: “FRBR is a must!!”