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Barker, FRBRizing Learning Materials

Posted by: William Denton, 30 October 2008 7:46 am
Categories: Blog Mentions

Phil Barker, who works for the Joint Information Systems Committee’s Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (or, more briefly, JISC CETIS), posted FRBRizing Learning Materials on his blog last week.

I may have bitten off more than I can chew. I wanted an example for showing how the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) might be applied to a typical learning resource. I’m not entirely sure that there is such a thing as a typical learning resource, but the OpenYale online lectures seemed seemed like reasonable candidates. I chose one on Newton’s Laws of Motion as my example because it’s a subject I like.

Check out his diagram! Whew. Applying FRBR to a Complex Learning Resource: A Lecture, Transcript, Recordings and Supporting Materials (53 KB PDF) explains it all in more detail. Complex is right.