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).

Calendar

August 2008
M T W T F S S
« Jul   Sep »
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031

Rochkind, “FRBRization is not FRBRization”

Posted by: William Denton, 1 August 2008 7:20 am
Categories: Blog Mentions

Jonathan Rochkind makes a good point in “FRBRization” Is Not FRBRization:

It continues to frustrate me that the term “FRBRization” and “FRBR” is used to mean “grouping records into work sets”, “collocating records for the work”…. Can we somehow please stop calling work set clustering “FRBRization”? You know what a good term for it is? How about “work set clustering”.

I agree entirely. This is a large misrepresentation of FRBR. Work set clustering is relatively easy, but what we really want is to get medieval on complicated relationships.