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Last month in FRBR

Posted by: William Denton, 10 November 2009 7:15 am
Categories: Last Week

Hi. I was on vacation there for a little while. Now I’m catching up on what happened while I was offline.

  • That huge long NGC4LIB thread I mentioned on 20 October is still going! Have a look at the November archives for FRBR WEMI and Identifiers or the thread about Tim Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web.
  • Jennifer Eustis’s NGC4lib on WEMI and Identifiers is a blog post about it. “If you have time, definitely take a detour to read this thread. It is short but very informative.”
  • James Weinheimer’s FW: [NGC4LIB] FRBR WEMI and identifiers is about the same thread.
  • Weinheimer’s FW: [NGC4LIB] At Univ. of South Carolina, the Card Catalog’s Graceful Departure comes out of NGC4LIB too. About FRBR Work information in OCLC’s Fiction Finder, he says, “I think everybody has done a great job here–it works very well. But is this the goal we should be aiming for? Is this what people really want in this new information universe?”
  • Jennifer Eustis also posted Brick and Click session 1 rough notes, some notes for a talk.
  • A Compound Object Authoring and Publishing Tool for Literary Scholars based on the IFLA-FRBR, by Anna Gerber and Jane Hunter, International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol 4, No 2 (2009). Abstract: “This paper presents LORE (Literature Object Re-use and Exchange), a light-weight tool which is designed to allow literature scholars and teachers to author, edit and publish compound information objects encapsulating related digital resources and bibliographic records. LORE enables users to easily create OAI-ORE-compliant compound objects, which build on the IFLA FRBR model, and also enables them to describe and publish them to an RDF repository as Named Graphs. Using the tool, literary scholars can create typed relationships between individual atomic objects using terms from a bibliographic ontology and can attach metadata to the compound object. This paper describes the implementation and user interface of the LORE tool, as developed within the context of an ongoing case study being conducted in collaboration with AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource, which focuses on compound objects for teaching and research within the Australian literature studies community.”

Did I miss anything?