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German, Japanese translations from IFLA

Posted by: William Denton, 10 June 2008 7:56 am
Categories: IFLA

Quoth John Hostage, information coordinator of the IFLA Cataloguing Section, on the FRBR mailing list on Monday: “A German translation of the text of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) as amended and Japanese translations of the recently published errata and the amendment to the expression entity have been made available through IFLANET.”

There are translations in: Chinese, Croatian, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese.