Work, expression, manifestation, item … blog.
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).
I just got around to listening to Karen Coyle’s talk at Code4Lib 2008: R & D: Can Resource Description Become Rigorous Data? It’s a great talk: she knows her stuff, enjoys a bit of sarcasm, and has important things to say. FRBR comes up here and there throughout her talk. Like the other talks at the conference, it was recorded, and the video is available at the Internet Archive.
Jenn Riley, the Inquiring Librarian, sent this around to some mailing lists yesterday. I’ve added in all the hyperlinks.
The Indiana University Variations2 and Variations3 projects use a work-based metadata model for discovery of musical sound recordings, scanned score images, and encoded score notation files. This model has been described as “FRBR-like” and is mentioned in various discussions of FRBR-based systems, but it is not technically a FRBR implementation.
As the project team investigates long-term sustainability issues for the Variations3 software, we have begun thinking about what a truly FRBR-ized version of the metadata model would look like, and if changing to this type of model would make our system more sustainable and interoperable. In September 2007 we released a report interpreting the FRBR Group 1 entities and their attributes for musical materials. Now, in July 2008, we have completed a second, follow-on report looking at the FRBR Group 2 and 3 entities and FRAD, and how they apply to musical materials. The report is available from our project news page: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/variations3/updates.html.