The FRBR Blog

Some of the best from February 2006:

• 27: More relationships between Groups, which includes this diagram (72 KB PNG) that shows all of the entity groups and their relationships all at once, instead of in three different diagrams. A few people have asked to use this: you’re welcome to do so, and don’t need to ask permission.
• 24: Group 1 relationships summarizes what the Final Report says about how the works, expressions. manifestations, and entities can relate.
• 22: LibraryThing has works.
• 13: Hal Cain says FRBR is a set of leaky containers.

Time to catch up on some of the best stuff from last year. Here are some from January 2006:

• 27: Four Questions: Barbara Tillett, a top librarian answers the famous four FRBR questions.
• 24: Rethinking How We Provide Bibliographic Services for the University of California, a large and interesting report.
• 5: Audio: Access 2005 Hackfest mention of FRBR, because listening to Hackfest talks is fun.

The best from last December:

• 24: FRBR Word Search, for when you’ve finished the Sudoku puzzle
• 23: Yann Nicolas’s paper “Folklore Requirements for Bibliographic Records”
• 17: Kristin Antelman’s paper “Identifying the Serial Work as a Bibliographic Entity”
• 14: RDA Part I draft available (for cataloguers only)
• 6: Seymour Lubetzky audio clip, from a 1997 conference, where he says, “The catalogue has to tell you more than what you ask for.”

The best from last November:

• 29: Video: Rosario Garza Presentation (recorded at a conference)
• 17: David Weinberger on Google Print and metadata
• 4: Arlene Taylor’s presentation “Metadata, FRBR, and New Challenges”

And now, the best stuff from last month.

• 31: FRBR Review Group minutes from IFLA 2005 available
• 19: Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Cataloog (paper by Mimno, Crane, and Jones)
• 12: Gordon Bonnar using RDF and FRBR
• 3: Ian Davis’s presentation on FRBR in RDF

I didn’t do a list of the best stuff from September, so here it is. It was a quiet month.

• 11: Richard Newman’s FRBR, the Semantic Web, and Image Annotation (a link to a work in progress)
• 8: Papers and presentations from the Bibliotheca Universalis conference (in a nice list)

Here are some highlights from last month. The big event was the IFLA conference.

• 26: Four Questions: Pat Riva (the new chair of the FRBR Review Group)
• 18 and 24: At the IFLA conference, Glenn Patton presented a paper and Ed O’Neill took the chair of a new working group on aggregates
• 11: Open WorldCat’s "other editions" (their FRBR work helps them group together all manifestations of a work)
• 8: Bibliotheca Universalis: How to Organize Chaos? (a conference before the big IFLA conference)
• 5: Four Questions: Patrick Le Boeuf (who soon after stepped down as chair of the FRBR Review Group)

I announced this weblog on 26 June, so July was its first full month. I posted on twenty-three days, much of which was rounding up existing stuff and pointing out useful sites and papers that you probably already knew about. Here are what I think are the best entries, by which I mean the ones that point to the most interesting or freshest work:

• 12: AustLit (remember you can get free FRBR guest access if you ask them)
• 22: Martha Yee’s new paper, “FRBRization: A Method for Turning Online Public Finding Lists into Online Public Catalogs”
• 25: Three June presentations on AACR3/RDA
• 28: Jennifer Bowen’s new paper, “FRBR: Coming Soon to Your Library?”
• 29: RDA prospectus announced

If you ever want to suggest something, please send me some e-mail. You’re always welcome to leave comments, too. Keep those cards and letters coming in.