Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)

Hype or Cure-All

Patrick Le Boeuf

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781317951599
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Get the straight facts on FRBR - and whether it is right for you!

In 1998, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) was a conceptual model promoted by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) as being the recommended new advancement in cataloging. As libraries strive to serve their users better in the coming years, questions remain as to whether FRBR may provide an answer on how to improve cataloging systems. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR): Hype or Cure-All? explores not only the theoretical issues, such as the concept of "works" and the bibliographic relationships of musical works, but also provides a unique survey of most of the systems that actually implement FRBR such as the AustLit Gateway. This book describes the challenges that accompany implementation of FRBR, and how this abstract approach to cataloging can be a useful, practical tool to help improve library systems.

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR): Hype or Cure-All? clearly explains the concepts, ideas, and practical applications of FRBR. The book is comprised of four major sections. A chronological section explains how FRBR was developed and how it will evolve in the future; a theoretical section reviews how FRBR analyzes different types of library materials; a practical aspects section examines how some systems actually use FRBR; and lastly, a section that explains an alternative to FRBR - the XOBIS project - which shows that other solutions are possible to meet future cataloging challenges.

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) explores:

• innovative features, including the "Semantic Web" activities
• future evolutions in cataloging
• alternatives to FRBR
• the history of IFLA Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records Study
• an updated description of the entity-relationship model being developed by the Working Group to extend the FRBR model to cover authority data
• key aspects of the FRBR and FRANAR models that will need to be re-examined
• the concept of expression
• the cataloging of hand press materials
• the AustLit Gateway
• musical works in the FRBR model
• the Paradigma Project at the National Library of Norway
• the FRBR and the performing arts
• oral traditions and FRBR
• the design of future systems
• the European FRBR research initiative
• FRBRizing OCLC's WorldCat
• the IFPA software and application interfaces
• the Library of Congress's FRBR Display Tool
• XOBIS - metadata - the critical bridge between content and sophisticated access

Librarians, library science faculty, students, and vendors will find Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR): Hype or Cure-All? an invaluable source of information on both the theoretical and practical aspects of FRBR.

Index

AACR (Anglo-American Cataloging Rules) versions, 20-21, 26-28, 65, 151-152, 155-165, 199, 287

AAT (Art and Architecture Thesaurus), 59

Access strategies, 128-129

Agent objects, 130-131

Aggregate classes, 137-141

Aggregate properties, 136-142

based-on classes, 140

component classes, 138

dependence, 137

distinct model objects, 141-142

existence, 137

extension classes, 140

fragment-of classes, 140-141

identified aggregate classes, 137-141

ordering, 137

recursion, 137

referencing, 137

synchronous classes, 139

update classes, 139-140

variant classes, 138-139

Aggregate works, 248-250

AI (Artificial Intelligence), 66-67

AIK, 207-227

Albertsen, K., 125-149

Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. See AACR (Anglo-American Cataloging Rules) versions

Annotation, 298

Ame-Classification, 192-193

Art and Architecture Thesaurus. See AAT (Art and Architecture Thesaurus)

Artificial Intelligence. See AI (Artificial Intelligence)

Associative relationships, 57-58

Attribute sets, 52-55

Augmented works, 243-246

AustLit Gateway, 87-102

background and historical perspectives, 88-92

definitions and descriptions, 91-101

event modeling structures, 87-102

fundamental concepts, 87-88

future perspectives, 100-101

reference resources, 101-102

scholarly bibliography, 87-102

WEMI structures, 89-102

Authority control concepts, 39-48, 285-303. See also under individual topics

FRANAR, 39-48

XOBIS XML schema, 285-303

Automation abstraction, 145-1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• FRBR: Hype or Cure-All? Introduction
• The Origins of the IFLA Study on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
• Extending FRBR to Authorities
• Modeling Subject Access: Extending the FRBR and FRANAR Conceptual Models
• rdfs: frbr–Towards an Implementation Model for Library Catalogs Using Semantic Web Technology
• Cataloguing of Hand Press Materials and the Concept of Expression in FRBR
• The AustLit Gateway and Scholarly Bibliography: A Specialist Implementation of the FRBR
• Musical Works in the FRBR Model or “Quasi la Stessa Cosa”: Variations on a Theme by Umberto Eco
• Paradigma: FRBR and Digital Documents
• “Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On”: How Does FRBR Fit Performing Arts?
• Folklore Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Oral Traditions and FRBR
• FRBR and Cataloging for the Future
• Slovenian Cataloguing Practice and Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: A Comparative Analysis
• Implementation of FRBR: European Research Initiative
• FRBRizing OCLC’s WorldCat
• Implementing the FRBR Conceptual Approach in the ISIS Software Environment: IFPA (ISIS FRBR Prototype Application)
• FRBR Display Tool
• XOBIS-An Experimental Schema for Unifying Bibliographic and Authority Records
• Index