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FRBR: Before and After
FRBR took the library community by storm when it first appeared in 1998. It provided a radical new model for library catalog data. The history of how FRBR came about, and the influence on its design are important to understanding what FRBR is. Strikingly, some of the basic concepts in FRBR, especially the model that includes Work, Expression, Manifestation and Item, have escaped from the library silo and infiltrated into the larger metadata world.
This book investigates the development of FRBR and its impact, pointing to some of the misconceptions about the model and also some inconsistencies in its specification.
The book is available from ALA editions in hard copy. The full contents of book available for Open Access with a CC-BY license. If you (or your library) can afford the hard copy I encourage you to purchase it. I earn $0 from sales, but ALA Editions generously allowed me to exchange potential royalties (which would have been quite small) for the privilege and advantage of having a professional publisher. This book would not have happened without their effort, and I greatly appreciate their willingness to make this exchange that is, in my opinion, a win-win-win (for me, for ALA Editions, and for readers).
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Now available in Italian. Special thanks to translator Lucia Sardo and the Associazione Italiana Bibliotecari.
A Look at Our Bibliographic Models
Table of Contents
- List of figures vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction xi
| Part I | WORK, MODEL, TECHNOLOGY |
|---|---|
| ONE | The Work / 3 |
| TWO | The Model / 29 |
| THREE | The Technology / 47 |
| Part II | FRBR AND OTHER SOLUTIONS |
|---|---|
| FOUR | FRBR in Context / 65 |
| FIVE | FRBR: Standard for International Sharing / 69 |
| SIX | The Entity-Relation Model / 75 |
| SEVEN | What is Modeled in FRBR? / 81 |
| EIGHT | Does FRBR Meet FRBR's Objectives? / 97 |
| NINE | Some Issues that Arise in FRBR / 125 |
| TEN | Bibliographic Description and the Semantic Web / 137 |
- Afterward 157
- Bibliography 161
- Index 173
Book and individual chapters are ©Karen Coyle, and are made available under a CC-BY license.