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Charlton, ALCTS FRBR Interest Group report

Posted by: William Denton, 30 July 2008 7:34 am
Categories: Blog Mentions, Conferences

I just not noticed that Galen Charlton posted ALA 2008 Conference Notes: ALCTS FRBR Interest Group on the LibLime Developers’ Blog on 27 June 2008, just over a month ago. LibLime, you may recall, are a company that works on Koha, the open source integrated library system, and sells support for it.

It’s a nice full report, so go have a look. John Espley of VTLS and Jennifer Bowen, who’s on the eXtensible Catalog project, spoke.

This morning I went to the meeting of the FRBR Interest Group at the American Library Association (ALA) conference in Anaheim, California. For those who like lots of acronyms, the interest group is a part of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of ALA.

… VTLS has started an experiment to offer Virtua’s FRBRization tools in the form of software as a service (SaaS). A library would send VTLS an extract of all of their bib records. VTLS would then determine which subset of the records would most benefit from FRBRization, then create a Virtua database with the FRBRized set of bibs. The library could then set up their OPAC to link from bib records to the work-sets stored in the Virtua database. That would allow a patron to find a bib for a paperback edition of Tom Sawyer and click on a link to see a list of all editions of that work that the library has. From the work-set page, the patron could in turn travel to one of the individual bibs.