Facing Forward: The Challenges Facing Cataloging and Catalogers
(source: Diane Hillmann, 17/10/08 / via The FRBR Blog)

"This presentation discusses issues surrounding the implementation of Resource Description and Access (RDA) in libraries. It also covers the work done by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative/RDA Task Group with provisional forms of RDA Elements, Roles and Vocabularies, how these relate to existing AACR2-MARC21 based applications, and how the library community might use metadata in a more forward-looking way."

FRBR Review Group meeting 2
(source: FRBR Blog)

A propos de FRBRoo.

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Màj (18/08/08): voir aussi ce billet à propos du Working Group on Aggregates

FRANAR Working Group meeting (on FRAD) (Functional Requirements for Authority Data)

"[...]
- They’re going to add a relationship between Family and Corporate Body.
- There was a lengthy discussion about Person-to-Name (or Family- and Corporate Body-to-Name relations) and Name-to-Name relations. The way FRAD works, Person is an entity and Name is an entity. They are related. A Person can have a pseudonym. That is another kind of Name and the relation might be hasPseudonym/isPseudonymOf. But what if a Person has a Name in an early form and another Name in a later form? Are the Names directly related (they are both entities, so they can be) or are they only indirectly related, through the Person? They discussed this kind of thing for almost an hour and a half. Section 5.4 will be changed and some relations pulled out into a new Name-to-Name relationship section.
- Some stuff from the FRSAR meeting was gone over. RDF modelling and reversible relationship names are important. “isKnownBy” is hard to reverse but something like “isAppellationOf” and “hasAppellation” might work. There’s a difference between Major as a title and the role of being a major. And Major as a title is different from Jr. or Sr.
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Via FRBR Blog

Toujours via W. Denton (FRBR Blog):

"- I went by the VTLS booth and saw a demo of their FRBRization service I mentioned a little while ago. I was quite impressed. It’s far beyond what any other vendor is doing. I took some pictures but can’t get them uploaded from where I am so my report will have to wait.
- In the American Library Association booth there’s a screencast running that shows how the online Resource Description and Access (RDA) system will look, and some of how it will work. I was told it will get posted on the web soon. There’s no example in the demo of how to actually catalogue an item, I assume because that bit isn’t working yet, especially since RDA isn’t finished, but if it goes well it looks like it could be a good system for managing and customizing a pretty complicated business. The ways workflows can be handled will be worth watching.
- Athena Salaba and Yin Zhang have a poster up about their research project, summarizing the results from their Delphi analysis."

Working Group on FRSAR meeting

Compte-rendu paru sur FRBR Blog.

FRBR Review Group Meeting 1

Compte-rendu paru sur FRBR Blog.

Lire également ce billet (toujours via FRBR Blog).

FRBRization of a Library Catalog: Better Collocation of Records, Leading to Enhanced Search, Retrieval, and Display
(source: Information Technology & Libraries, mars 2008, vol. 27, n° 1 / sur abonnement)

"The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)'s hierarchical system defines families of bibliographic relationship between records and collocates them better than most extant bibliographic systems. Certain library materials (especially audio-visual formats) pose notable challenges to search and retrieval; the first benefits of a FRBRized system would be felt in music libraries, but research already has proven its advantages for fine arts, theology, and literature--the bulk of the non-science, technology, and mathematics collections. This report will summarize the benefits of FRBR to next-generation library catalogs and OPACs, and will review the handful of ILS and catalog systems currently operating with its theoretical structure."

What Exactly is an Item in the Digital World? (The American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting 2007, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, oct. 07) (soumis dans IDEALS, le DI de l'université de l'Illinois)

IFLA’s Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) is a model of the bibliographic universe. Although initially its application to the digital world appears to be straightforward, upon closer examination puzzles arise. One is that within the digital world it is surprisingly difficult to say exactly what FRBR items really are. On the one hand, the ontological candidates for items (concrete physical states of the computing system) are rarely identified and treated as items in practice — even though they may indeed be affirmed as items in theoretical discussions. On the other hand, objects that manifestly fail to meet the basic ontological criteria for FRBR items are commonly treated as if they are items. We describe this situation and, based on a re-factoring of FRBR into a set of roles (relationships) rather than a set of entity types, explore two possible resolutions. One, favored by the second author, is consistent with the ontology implicit in the original FRBR vision, but allows assignment of item attributes and roles to things that are not items; the other, favored by the first author, is a radical departure from the underlying FRBR ontology, but preserves the original attribute assignments and roles.

Via The FRBR Blog

MARC, FRBR and RDA: The Topic Maps Perspective (une présentation donnée lors de la conférence Topic Maps, début avril 08 à Oslo) (pdf) (ppt)

Librarians have a reputation for living in a world of their own and they certainly have their own long-established traditions. Their acronyms may be longer than ours, but the problems they have been wrestling with for centuries are exactly the ones we all face in today’s Age of Infoglut: how to organize information and knowledge so that it can be easily found and reused. Today’s information owners have a lot to learn from librarians.
So can librarians save the world? This presentation argues that they can at least make a significant contribution to solving the problem of infoglut, but only if they update their skill set and understand how the concepts they have worked with for decades can be applied using modern technologies like Topic Maps.
This presentation attempts to bridge the gap between the two communities, showing how the concepts that librarians both love and hate are related to Topic Maps and to the more general vision of subject-centric computing.

Via The FRBR Blog

FRBR for Serials: Rounding the Square to Fit the Peg (pdf)

Une présentation donnée à la LoC lors d'une conférence dans le cadre du projet CONSER.

Via The FRBR Blog