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"
  • October, 2011
• 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)