David Hay, Describing the World: Data Patterns (webcast)
Gary Price posted about this in June and pointed it out to me but I’m just getting to it now: Describing the World: Data Model Patterns, a 102 minute Library of Congress webcast done in March 2009. (I still haven’t watched it yet due to technical problems.)
Description: “When an organization is planning to develop or revise the automation of information processing, a typical first step is to analyze the underlying structure of its business. The ‘entity/relationship’ (or simply ‘data’) model is a good vehicle for doing this. What has been discovered over the years is that there are a number of structures that are universal and applicable to all kinds of organizations, both private and public. There are four fundamental categories: People and Organizations, Geography, Physical Resources and Activities and Events. Overlaying all of these are the topics of Accounting and Information Resources. This webcast will also relate this model to the Library of Congress Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR).”
The speaker, David Hay, works at Capgemini Financial Services, not the sort of background one usually finds in people talking about FRBR.