Variations3 FRBR-based metadata model
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.