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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).

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.

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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.

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Mise en ligne ce 10 mars du rapport final Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) sur le site de l'IFLA (incluant la mise à jour de la définition de l'entité expression et différentes corrections apportées au texte original de 1998, également disponible).

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Interpretations of FRBR Classes par Karen Coyle.

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Màj (+ qques heures): The FRBR Blog signale également la sortie de l'ouvrage Understanding FRBR: What It Is and How It Will Affect Our Retrieval Tools (sous la dir. d'Arlene G. Taylor, chez Libraries Unlimited) [ via Amazon.fr ]

L'IFLA a mis en ligne une nouvelle section consacrée à FRBR.

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Implementing FRBR: A Comparison of Two Relational Models: IFLA’s FRBR Model and Taniguchi’s Expression-Prioritized Model (Einar Silset Berg, 2004, thèse)

Two relational data models are implemented and compared. One is based on the FRBR model proposed by the IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, and the other is based on a model proposed by Professor Shoichi Taniguchi, entitled ”the expression-prioritized model”. The two models’ abilities to handle documents that consist of different types of component parts are discussed. The bibliographic data from the discussed documents are filled into the databases and the physical consequences are discussed. The results show that the expression-prioritized model might be an improvement of the FRBR model. It gives a smaller database with less redundancy, yet it can reflect the same aspects of a document as the FRBR model.

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Karen Coyle, via la liste RDA:

We are still having a lot of trouble with FRBR Group 1 entities. This is a good example of what doesn’t work when a standard is defined on rather than in a rigorous, testable way. Until we actually start trying to use FRBR in practice we have no way of testing it to see if the idea really works. FRBR is now almost ten years old and still hasn’t really been tested. It is possible that some parts of it don’t actually work. There are folks trying to express FRBR in RDF, and others working to express it as an object-oriented structure. Both seem to be running into problems (that I cannot claim to understand). I am uneasy about adopting FRBR as the basis for our metadata until it has been proven. I don’t see an obvious mechanism of feedback that would result in adjustments to FRBR if it does turn out to need to be changed. Should we be treating it as gospel? No, at the moment it’s a theory, but still just a theory. Think of what we risk if that theory is wrong.

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Des articles sur FRBR dans le Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)

+ Introducing the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and Related IFLA Developments
+ Understanding FRBR as a Conceptual Model: FRBR and the Bibliographic Universe
+ Understanding Support of FRBR's Four User Tasks in MARC-Encoded Bibliographic Records
+ FRBR: The End of the Road or a New Beginning
+ Critical Issues and Challenges Facing FRBR Research and Practice

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