FRBR; or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the model
| Jenn Riley | |
| Metadata Librarian | |
| IU Digital Library Program | |
| jenlrile@indiana.edu |
| Introduction to FRBR | |
| ALCTS preconference summary | |
| Current FRBR-ish activities | |
| So how is this going to affect me? |
| Introduction to FRBR | |
| ALCTS preconference summary | |
| Current FRBR-ish activities | |
| So how is this going to affect me? |
| Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records | ||
| Either F-R-B-R or “Ferber” | ||
| A report in 7 languages (soon to add simplified and traditional Chinese) | ||
| A “conceptual model” | ||
| entities | ||
| attributes | ||
| relationships | ||
| Introduction | |
| Objectives, Scope, and Methodology | |
| Entities | |
| Attributes | |
| Relationships | |
| User Tasks | |
| Basic Requirements for National Bibliographic Records | |
| FRBR | ||
| Find | ||
| Identify | ||
| Select | ||
| Obtain | ||
| Cutter | ||
| To enable a person to find a book of which either | ||
| the author | ||
| the title | ||
| the subject | ||
| ...is known | ||
| To show what the library has | ||
| by a given author | ||
| on a given subject | ||
| in a given kind of literature | ||
| To assist in the choice of a book | ||
| as to its edition (bibliographically) | ||
| as to its character (literary or topical) | ||
Borders between entities can be unclear
| New preface | ||
| New illustrations | ||
| Braille | ||
| Screenplay | ||
| Work<->Work relationships | ||
| Serials? | ||
| Does everything represent a “work”? | ||
| FRBR report, p. 19: “Strictly speaking, any change in intellectual or artistic content constitutes a change in expression. Thus, if a text is revised or modified, the resulting expression is considered to be a new expression, no matter how minor the modification may be.” | |
| Some call for merging/removal of expression entity, but MUCH resistance from FRBR folk |
| Person | |
| Corporate body |
| Groups 1 & 2 entities | |
| Concept | |
| Object | |
| Event | |
| Place |
| Introduction to FRBR | |
| ALCTS preconference summary | |
| Current FRBR-ish activities | |
| So how is this going to affect me? |
ALCTS FRBR preconference agenda
| Overview of FRBR | |
| Reasons behind FRBR | |
| Practical considerations | |
| Example applications |
| Allyson Carlyle (U. Washington): reservations about the expression entity from experience teaching library school students | ||
| Glenn Patton (OCLC): Why FRBR? | ||
| Clearer understanding of why we do what we do | ||
| Better collocation and navigation | ||
| Clearer, more useful relationships | ||
| More controlled, authoritative information for productivity | ||
| Tom Delsey (independent consultant): areas revisited | ||
| Record type | ||
| Material type | ||
| Objectives of the catalog | ||
| Syndetic structure | ||
| Core record | ||
| Sally McCallum (LC): FRBR & MARC | ||
| LC-commissioned MARC mapping suggested extensions to FRBR to accommodate all MARC21 elements | ||
| FRBRizer performed poorly for music | ||
| Jennifer Bowen (Rochester): “Is FRBR really coming? It’s already here!” | ||
| Introduction to FRBR | |
| ALCTS preconference summary | |
| Current FRBR-ish activities | |
| So how is this going to affect me? |
Implementations & related projects
| OCLC FictionFinder | |
| RLG RedLightGreen | |
| AustLit Gateway | |
| VTLS Virtua ILS system | |
| III Millennium 2005 ILS system | |
| IU Variations2 | |
| Functional Analysis of the MARC
21 Bibliographic and Holdings Formats |
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| Performed by Tom Delsey (AACR3 editor) | |||
| Commissioned by LC | |||
| Joint Steering Committee for Revision of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules | |||
| Incorporating FRBR terminology and concepts | |||
| Work OK | |||
| Expression, Manifestation new | |||
| Item definition changed | |||
| Format Variation Working Group (Feb. 2001-June 2004) | |||
| “Catalog” or “collocate” expressions | |||
| Differences in opinion between domains | |||
| CC:DA Task Force on FRBR Terminology | |||
| ALA group reviewing and responding to JSC work | |||
| October 2004 issue of LRTS will contain papers based on ALCTS preconference presentations | |
| C&CQ Vol 39, No. 3-4, 2004 will be a topical issue on FRBR | |
| Lots of other presentations and papers | |
| Work on FRBR for authorities: FRANAR |
| Expression entity | |
| Continuing resources | |
| Teaching and training | |
| Subject relationships | |
| FRBR/CRM dialogue |
| Introduction to FRBR | |
| ALCTS preconference summary | |
| Current FRBR-ish activities | |
| So how is this going to affect me? |
How many records are affected?
| 78% of works have a single manifestation | |
| 99% of all works in WorldCat have seven manifestations or less | |
| 30,000, or <1% have more than 20 manifestations | |
| R. Bennett et. al. (2003) "The concept of a work in WorldCat: an application of FRBR" Library Collections Acquisitions & Technical Services 27, 45-59. | |
| So why do we need FRBR? | |
| ILL | |
| Holds | |
| Allow better distinction between content and carrier | |
| FRBR-ized catalog vs. disambiguation process | |
| Non-MARC environments | ||
| Many already doing FRBR-like things | ||
| Tend to have lots of programming support | ||
| MARC environments | ||
| Need more innovation from ILS vendors | ||
| Catalogers used to looking at 1 record (maybe 2) showing everything | ||
| Need to provide complex relationships when necessary, hide when not | ||
| Legacy records | ||
| Learn more! |
Some presentations at ALCTS preconference
| FRBR: Coming Soon to YOUR
Library? Jennifer Bowen, University of Rochester |
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| FRBR and the Bibliographic
Universe, or, How to Read FRBR as a Model Allyson Carlyle, Information School, University of Washington |
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| Differentiating Libraries
through Enriched User Searching; FRBR as the next dimension in meaningful
Information Retrieval Vinod Chachra, Chairman & CEO, VTLS Inc. and John Espley, Director of Design, VTLS Inc. |
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| Stepping Back Looking Forward:
FRBR and the Evolution of the Catalogue Thomas J. Delsey, Consultant |
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| RedLightGreen - FRBR between a
Rock and a Hard Place Merrilee Proffitt, Program Officer, RLG |
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| What is FRBR? (Functional
Requirements for Bibliographic Records) Dr. Barbara B. Tillett, Library of Congress |
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| FictionFinder: a FRBR
works-based prototype Diane Vizine-Goetz, OCLC Research |
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| from <http://www.ala.org/ala/alcts/alctsconted/presentations/presentations.htm> | |
| FRBR report | |
| Readings on handout & previous slide | |
| FRBR listserv | |
| jenlrile@indiana.edu | |
| These presentation materials | |