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Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

A report on the Dublin Workshop dedicated to FRBR implementation issues that took place on May 2-4 is now available. Talks include:

Ed O'Neill: "Relational Models for Aggregates"
Maja Zumer: "Modeling Augmentations"
Judith A. Kuhagen: "Modeling Continuing Resources in FRBR (and more...)"
Carol van Nuys and Ketil Albertsen: "Modelling web resources"
Allyson Carlyle: "FRBR: challenges for implementation in AACR2, with some attention to non-book materials"
Barbara B. Tillett: "Relationships in FRBR"
Maja Zumer: "Some outcomes of the CRM/FRBR harmonization: the definition of manifestation and a review of attributes"
Glenn Patton: "FRAR: extending FRBR concepts to authority data"
Marcia Lei Zeng and Athena Salaba: "Toward an international sharing and use of subject authority data"
Diane Vizine-Goetz: "Subjects in fiction: the experience with WorldCat"
Maria Nasilowska: "Precoordination in subject indexing systems and FRBR model"
Trond Aalberg: "Formats and FRBR catalogues -- where's our focus?"
Ketil Albertsen: "What do we want to identify? -- FRBR and identifier semantics"
Patrick Le Boeuf: "Identifying textual 'works': ISTC: controversy and potential"
Thomas B. Hickey: "Exchanging FRBR information"
Barbara Tillett: "FRBR and Cataloguing Rules: Impact on IFLA's Statement of Principles and AACR/RDA"
Patrick Le Boeuf: "'Convergence is the Goal': Activity Report of the IFLA FRBR/CIDOC CRM Harmonization Group"
Godfrey Rust: "Thoughts from a different planet (only slightly different)"

Looks like quite a good meeting. I hope the proceedings get published or the talks become available as MP3s.

FRBR

- Openfrbr
OpenFRBR is a open-source tool built using Ruby on Rails and using MySQL to FRBRize bibliographic records. Not sure just what it does. here is the set of goals:OpenFRBR says it will build a complete free implementation of FRBR (Functional Requirements...

- Frbr
OCLC to host workshop for the IFLA FRBR Review Group"FRBR in 21st Century Catalogues: An Invitational Workshop" will take place May 2-4, 2005 on the OCLC campus. The purpose of the international workshop is to provide implementors, vendors, cataloguers,...

- Frbr
William Denton has posted his paper "FRBR and Fundamental Cataloguing Rules".IFLA's proposed data model, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), arranges bibliographic entities in a new way, using an entity-relationship model that...

- Frbr
The proceedings of a FRBR Symposium that was organized by the National Library of France on December 5th, 2002, have just been made available. Most are in French. They include:Le modele FRBR : presentation - historique - enjeux, par Patrick Le BoeufFRBR...

- Frbr
The Working Group on FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) of the Cataloguing Section of IFLA now has a Web presence. The site includes:FRBR Final ReportFRBR Discussion ListBibliographyMeeting ReportsFAQ and examplesImplementation ReportsPapers...

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