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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ALA 2008 sessions on FRBR

Posted by: William Denton, 7 June 2008 7:50 am
Categories: Conferences

The American Library Association’s 2008 conference is in Anaheim, California, at the end of this month. I spy two FRBR-related sessions on the program so far:

  • Saturday 28 June, 4:00 - 5:30: Getting Ready for RDA and FRBR: What You Need to Know.
  • Sunday 29 June, 1:30 - 5:30: You Know FRBR, But Have You Ever Met FRAD. “To improve search and retrieval experiences for users, the data modeling concepts of FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records)- work, expression, manifestation, and item - have been incorporated into RDA (Resource Description and Access) and elsewhere. FRBR has been extended to both name and subject authority data through the work of FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data) and FRSAR (Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records). Speakers will describe the status of this work to date.”

I don’t try to keep up with all of the FRBR-related conference sessions any more — there are too many now — but if slides or audio go up for any, or people blog about them, I’m glad to post a link if I know.