Library Cataloging
The comments on Functional Requirements for Authority Records: A Conceptual Model by the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access are available.
- Romanization Considered
The final report of the ALCTS Non-English Access Working Group on Romanization has been released. The Working Group was established by the ALCTS Non-English Access Steering Committee in June 2009 to examine the current use of romanized data in bibliographic...
- Functional Requirements For Authority Data
IFLA has a new book available, Functional Requirements for Authority Data: A Conceptual Model.This book represents one portion of the extension and expansion of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. FRBR has been published as Nr 19 in...
- Functional Requirements And Numbering Of Authority Records
The IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR) has made this announcement.The IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records is pleased to announce that a 2nd draft of "Functional...
- 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...
- Frar: Extending Frbr Concepts To Authority Data
FRAR: Extending FRBR Concepts to Authority Data by Glenn E. Patton is now available.The IFLA FRANAR Working Group is charged with extending the concepts of the IFLA Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records to authority data. The paper reports...
Library Cataloging
CC:DA's Comments on FRAR
The comments on Functional Requirements for Authority Records: A Conceptual Model by the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access are available.
We find the resulting document to be generally acceptable although at times not intuitive or easily grasped. Those who question the use of an entity-attribute model for this exercise continue to find the approach unsuitable and find some results objectionable.FRAR
- Romanization Considered
The final report of the ALCTS Non-English Access Working Group on Romanization has been released. The Working Group was established by the ALCTS Non-English Access Steering Committee in June 2009 to examine the current use of romanized data in bibliographic...
- Functional Requirements For Authority Data
IFLA has a new book available, Functional Requirements for Authority Data: A Conceptual Model.This book represents one portion of the extension and expansion of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. FRBR has been published as Nr 19 in...
- Functional Requirements And Numbering Of Authority Records
The IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR) has made this announcement.The IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records is pleased to announce that a 2nd draft of "Functional...
- 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...
- Frar: Extending Frbr Concepts To Authority Data
FRAR: Extending FRBR Concepts to Authority Data by Glenn E. Patton is now available.The IFLA FRANAR Working Group is charged with extending the concepts of the IFLA Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records to authority data. The paper reports...