Google and FRBR
I’ve been wondering when Google would go at FRBR. Dan Cohen, one of the people behind Zotero, is at the Digital Humanities 2009 conference and he’s covering it on Twitter. He was just at a talk given by Jon Orwant, the Perl guru who now works on Google Books.
- There are 120M works & 165M manifestations of works worldwide in FRBR terms according to Google. #dh09
- For those not hip to FRBR: “What is FRBR?” from Library of Congress: http://is.gd/1dgeQ #dh09
- @Musebrarian says he would be interested in how they are interpreting “works” and “manifestations.”
- @Musebrarian Orwant says they don’t do ultrastrict FRBR, but it’s close. But the numbers seem off to me; could use more explanation.