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Hourclé, FRBR Applied to Scientific Data

Posted by: William Denton, 15 January 2009 7:07 am
Categories: Papers

“I have no idea if anyone looks at comments on month old messages” said Joe Hourclé a couple of weeks ago. I do, but sometimes I don’t follow up fast enough, such as my delay in pointing out this preprint: FRBR Applied to Scientific Data (266 KB PDF).

ABSTRACT: The distinction between a creative work and the physical item that contains that work is clearly delineated in FRBR and other research by the Library Science community. A similar confusion exists in the scientific realm between the underlying scientific data and the digital objects that contain those data. We present a similarly scoped reference framework for sensor-based scientific data, drawing on the concepts in FRBR, and compare it with the application of FRBR for cataloging other non-book records.