- Three from Scribe. First, RDA, FRBR, and Other Acronyms, about Karen Coyle’s Code4Lib talk. “I am SO GLAD that Karen Coyle gave her talk at Code4Lib on RDA.”
- Second, Creating Meaning. “RDA and FRBR have a great ideal in place, and I love it, but I think that RDA is missing something really central in their thought processes. Even if you use machines to pull a lot of this data, and we use publisher information, and we stop caring about grammar and punctuation, it is still a ridiculously high expectation to put on catalogers to ‘create meaning’ for the entire scope of human knowledge.”
- And finally Define Yourself, Sir: “FRBR tried to help us out by changing some of the ways that we think about conceptual objects in the library world, but I don’t think that most librarians are well-versed in that FRBR world, and don’t use those terms on a regular basis. And since RDA apparently isn’t even using all of FRBR’s concepts to write their manual…well, I don’t exactly see a light at the end of the tunnel.”
- FRBR-Like Grouping and Metasearch in Koha. A bit cryptic.
- Facets, FRBR, And Bibliographic Data Modeling, a blog post by Mike Simpson on 14 December 2007. “So here’s what wound up on my chalkboard during a discussion with a couple of colleagues, about what kinds of data structures you would need to do a better job of modelling bibliographic data in a way that would enable (or at least make easier) some current library buzzwords.” One of those buzzwords is FRBR!
- Galen Charlton of Liblime posted Code4Lib 2008: RDA, a report on Karen Coyle’s talk at the conference.
- Peter Zimmerman’s notes on Sherry Vellucci’s Bibliographic Relationships in Music Catalogs (1997).