A weblog following developments around the world in FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.

Maintained by William Denton, Web Librarian at York University. Suggestions and comments welcome at wtd@pobox.com.


Confused? Try What Is FRBR? (2.8 MB PDF) by Barbara Tillett, or Jenn Riley's introduction. For more, see the basic reading list.

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ngc4lib thread on FRBR, user tasks, Semantic Web, etc.

Posted by: William Denton, 20 October 2009 7:26 am
Categories: Blog Mentions

James Weinheimer’s post Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web kicked off a very interesting discussion on the ngc4lib mailing list about the FRBR user tasks, the Semantic Web, the RDA vocabulary that will let people use RDA on the Semantic Web, and more. Check out the archives to read it and don’t miss where Shawne Miksa starts a new thread on User Tasks–Outdated? Why?

Jonathan Rochkind, Karen Coyle, Diane Hillmann, Eric Lease Morgan are all there, so you know it’s going to be informed, opinionated, lively, intelligent, and just the kind of thing where you wish everyone was sitting together over a drink.

If you’re not on ngc4lib, consider joining.

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  1. [...] an interesting thread on the ngc4lib listserv (one of about a half-dozen that i follow) by way of will denton’s blog.  there are all kinds of crazy library-world acronyms in there: FRBR, RDA, AACR2 — and [...]

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