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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Third birthday next month

Posted by: William Denton, 16 May 2008 7:52 am
Categories: Administration

On 25 June 2005 I announced this blog to the FRBR mailing list and elsewhere. Any suggestions for what to do here to celebrate? Aside from preparing for the One Big Library Unconference two days later, that is.

Hello,

I was able to go to the May FRBR workshop hosted by IFLA and OCLC, and it
was very interesting and thought-provoking.  I'm really glad I was there.
One of the things that struck me was that many smart people are working on
FRBR but it's hard for the average person to follow it all.  It's
especially hard for people out of the loop of academic journals and
association memberships.  There's this mailing list, of course, but I got
to thinking that a FRBR weblog would be useful.

So I started one.  I've set up

http://www.frbr.org/

and filled it with some things I'd had bookmarked.  Please have a look
and tell me any suggestions or comments you have, especially including
good things to link to.  If you have something FRBRish on the web, or a
paper in a journal somewhere, I'd love to hear about it.

I hope that over the next few months I'll have lots of interesting links
to post, and that the blog becomes a useful resource for people--not just
librarians, but anyone interested in FRBR--wanting to stay up to date.

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