FRBR Models Discussion
Documentation:
- IFLA FRBR document (Feb. 2009)
Various versions of FRBR in RDF:
- FRBR core
- FRBR extended on vocab.org (This one was created in 2005 and not updated, so it may be assumed to be abandoned.)
- FRBR entities for RDA
- FRBRoo
- FRBRer @ metadataregistry.org
- FRBRer (full ontology) (includes OWL)
Models
- IFLA FRBR Review Group
- Murray/Tillett paper model: Cataloging Theory in Search of Graph Theory and Other Ivory Towers
- Rob Stiles relationship model
- Ross Singer's commonThing properties
- SOBR, by Jakob Voss
Implementations
- Librarything
- Variations (Music testbed)
- FaBIO
- Scholarly Works Application Profile (SWAP)
Discussions
- Alistair Miles' analysis and suggestions on DC wiki
- Discussion on W3C LLD list "Disjointedness of FRBR Classes"
- November, 2011
- Discussion on W3C LLD list "Non- and Partial FRBR Metadata"
- September 2010, starting post
- FRBR and classes ("Works in the age of mechanical reproduction")
- March, 2011 beginning post
- Aggregates
- IFLA Working Group on FRBR Aggregates
- RDA-L discussion (scores of posts!) starting post
Articles, Blog posts
- The FRBR blog
- Three of the Four FRBR Group 1 Entity Types are Roles, not Types.(PDF) by Renear, AH
- Allen H. Renear and Yunseon Choi: Modeling Our Understanding, Understanding Our Models: The Case of Inheritance in FRBR (95 KB PDF). In Grove, Andrew, Eds. Proceedings 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 43.
- Aggregate Model, (PDF) by Heilbrun Wiesenmueller (other writings here under "Working Paper")
- FRBR as Cake, blog post, Karen Coyle
- FRBR and Sharability, blog post, Karen Coyle
- What is a (FRBR) Work?, blog post, Karen Coyle
- Bringing FRBR down to earth, blog post, Rob Styles
- Faceted classification and FRBR, blog post, Bradley Allen
- Rick Bennett, Brian F. Lavoie, Edward T. O’Neill. The concept of a work in WorldCat: an application of FRBR. Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 27 (2003) 45–59
Background reading:
- Yee, Martha. "What is a Work? Part 1, The User and the Objects of the Catalog." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 1994; 19:1:9-28.
- Yee, Martha. "What is a Work? Part 2, The Anglo-American Cataloging Codes." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 1994; 19:2:5-22.
- Yee, Martha. "What is a Work? Part 3, The Anglo-American Cataloging Codes, Continued." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 1995; 20:1:25-45.
- Yee, Martha. "What is a Work? Part 4, Cataloging Theorists and a Definition." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 1995; 20:2:3-23.
Issues:
- Strictness of entities (classes?) and properties condemns FRBRer to a specialist community
- disjointness of classes
- disjointness of properties
Note: discussion Dec. 2011 with Gordon, TomB and Kcoyle concluded that the strictness is the IFLA SG's intention. Not clear if "someone" should create an un-constrained model nor what that would look like.
- Incompatibility with mainstream bibliographic data (citations, bookstores, book clubs)
- Ross's linking terms commonEndeavor commonExpression commonWork commonItem
- SOBR, by Jakob Voss
- Conceptual nature of FRs vs. encoding as data models
- Lack of linking to non-FRBR vocabularies (DC, etc.)
- Acknowledge uses of FRBR concepts, albeit none using the IFLA RDF: LibraryThing, WorldCat, Open Library, VTLS
- Reconciliation of versions (above)