Hickey, FRBR and Uniform Titles
Thom Hickey, of OCLC fame, posted FRBR and Uniform Titles on his blog Tuesday.
AACR2 lists four uses for uniform titles, but the most common is to group items that appear with multiple titles under a single heading. Works such as Don Quixote that are published in multiple languages and under hundreds of different titles benefit from this. Unfortunately, when trying to group manifestations into works, uniform titles do not always correspond to what anyone would consider a work.