Australian Music Centre
Mail from Simon Chambers:
Dear colleagues,
I’d like to announce the launch of a new FRBR-based online music catalogue at http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au, which presents the Australian Music Centre’s documentation of music by Australian composers and sound artists.
The catalogue adapts the basic FRBR framework to incorporate additional entities beyond traditional bibliographic records, and to support additional functionality such as retail sales. Thousands of sheet music and audio samples are available through the catalogue, which also integrates our calendar of events (concerts/gigs featuring works in the catalogue) and online magazine (featuring articles about the people/works/etc held in the catalogue). The collection was previously catalogued in a MARC based system using AACR2.
Feedback is most welcomed as we continue work on developing the user-interface (which is somewhat raw at the moment…) and continue to populate additional data.
Regards,
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Simon Chambers
Online Manager, Australian Music CentreLevel 4, 10 Hickson Road, The Rocks NSW 2000 — PO Box N690, Grosvenor
Place NSW 1220
ph. (02) 9247 4677 — fax. (02) 9241 2873 —
http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au
There’s no mention of AC/DC in their system so I picked something at random: Alice, an orchestral work by Gillian Whitehead. The works page links to two “products,” a score and a CD recording. Those are both Manifestations but I don’t see the Expressions listed, perhaps because it’s a very simple case. Have a look around and see what you find.
Hi William,
We’ve chosen to mask much of the complexity of FRBR to users as we found many people had enough trouble making the conceptual distinction between a Work and a Product (the score ‘is’ the work to some people…).
We’ve developed a native FRBR cataloguing system and we actually ended up adding an additional entity between Work and Expression to handle different instrumental versions (we call the entity ‘Subwork’). Cataloguing these as separate works or as different expressions of the same work ended up having some significant inadequacies for us. You can see some evidence of this at a page like http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/work/edwards-ross-ecstatic-dances
Also, you can see some Expression related information if you view a product page (eg http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/product/spin-australian-solo-piano-works) – you will notice aspects of the specific expression featured on the CD (performer, date, duration, capture session, etc).
We are still very much exploring the possibilities of this rich data model and welcome all feedback.
(sorry for the lack of ac/dc – we are currently only funded to document the works of represented composers and sound artists, but the system has been designed to be genre neutral)
Comment by Simon — 7 May 2009 @ 9:53 pm[...] The FRBR Blog by [...]
Pingback by Hangtárnok » Ausztrál Zenei Központ — 9 May 2009 @ 1:39 pmJust an update to note that some additional documentation on our FRBR implementation is online at http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/about/websitedevelopment
More extensive documentation will hopefully be made available in the near future.
Comment by Simon — 25 August 2009 @ 8:29 pm