Last week in FRBR
There are a number of “This Week in ___” summaries out there. I’m behind on things, so I’m going to catch up on some old stuff. Call it “Last Week in FRBR.”
I’d like to change frbr.org into something involving other people. FRBR’s far more widely known and used now than it was in May 2005 when I started this blog. My interests have evolved and my work has changed. More on this in another post.
- Ed Summers, Work Identifers and the Web. “Both OCLC Worldcat and LibraryThing mint URIs for bibliographic works…. [T]he library community really does web identifiers for works–or more precisely web identifiers for human readable records about works. What’s missing (IMHO) is the ability to use that identifier to get back something meaningful for a machine.”
- Phil Barker, Identifiers for UK OER “Works.” “Would it be useful and feasible to have a single identifier to link together all the instances of a learning resource?”
- Xiaoming Liu, New xISBN Bookmarklets Supports Thousands of Libraries. “The previous xISBN bookmarket supports more than 300 libraries, however, the list was manually maintained and it’s challenging to keep these links up-to-date, By ingesting good Registry OPAC information into xISBN bookmarklet, we are able to support thousands more libraries in a more sustainable way.”
- Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba, FRBRizing Legacy Data: Issues and Challenges(1.1 MB PDF), slides from 24 January 2009 ALA Midwinter talk. As part of the Kent State FRBR project they took the OCLC FRBR Work-Set Algorithm, experimented with it, and hacked on it a bit.
- Alastair Miles, Re: datasets for testing rda at scale, from the DC-RDA mailing list archives. “This is just an update to say that I’ve converted the LOC/data to marc xml and from there to mods xml. My next step is do some analysis of the loc data in mods xml to get an overview of the elements used, then to try to design at least a partial mapping from mods xml to RDF using the RDA and FRBR schemas.”
Coming up: in a couple of weeks Jodi Schneider and I are giving a talk at Code4Lib 2009: “What We Talk About When We Talk About FRBR.” I’ll link to the video when it’s up.