FRBR, before and after : a look at our bibliographic models / Karen Coyle.

  • Coyle, Karen
Date:
2016
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Also known as

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, before and after

Description

"This book looks at the ways that we define the things of the bibliographic world, and in particular how our bibliographic models reflect our technology and the assumed goals of libraries. There is, of course, a history behind this, as well as a present and a future. The first part of the book begins by looking at the concept of the 'work' in library cataloging theory, and how that concept has evolved since the mid-nineteenth century to date. Next it talks about models and technology, two areas that need to be understood before taking a long look at where we are today. It then examines the new bibliographic model called Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and the technical and social goals that the FRBR Study Group was tasked to address. The FRBR entities are analyzed in some detail. Finally, FRBR as an entity-relation model is compared to a small set of Semantic Web vocabularies that can be seen as variants of the multi-entity bibliographic model that FRBR introduced"-- Introduction.

Publication/Creation

Chicago : ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2016.

Physical description

xv, 179 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-172) and index.

Contents

Work, model, technology. The work ; The model ; The technology -- FRBR and other solutions. FRBR in context ; FRBR : standard for international sharing ; The entity-relation model ; What is modeled in FRBR? ; Does FRBR meet FRBR's objectives? ; Some issues that arise in FRBR? ; Bibliographic description and the Semantic Web.

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  • 9780838913451
  • 0838913458