An interpretation of the FRBR model

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An interpretation of the FRBR model

• Dr. Victoria Frâncu
• Central University Library
• Bucharest Romania

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Overview

• Introduction
• From tradition to modernity
• Bibliographic families
• Concluding remarks

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Basic cataloguing principles

• the basic cataloguing principles of Anthony
  Panizzi, Charles A. Cutter and Seymour Lubetzky
  can be retrieved, Denton (2003) argues, as
  updated versions, between the basic lines of the
  FRBR model

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Contd.

• the relation work-author groups all the works of
  an author
• all the editions, translations, adaptations of a
  work are clearly separated (as expressions and
  manifestations)
• all the expressions and manifestations of a work
  are collocated with their related works in
  bibliographic families
• any document (manifestation and item) can be
  found if the author, title or subject of that
  document is known
• the authors name is authorised by the authority
  control
• the title is an intrinsic part of the work
  authority control entity.

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The FRBR model and the functions of the catalogue

• The collocating function clusters entities that
  have elements in common which makes the FRBR
  model a good knowledge organiser
• The finding function enables browsing but also
  navigation through a multitude of entities given
  the variety of bibliographic relationships the
  model provides

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The FRBR model and the integration of traditional
and digital resources

• Tillett (2002) regards online catalogues as parts
  of larger systems including portals and gateways
  to digital resources combined with traditional
  resources
• The entity-relation model
• provides enlarged possibilities of access to
  related entities integrating traditional and
  digital resources
• permits improved retrieval, facilitating
  navigation through semantic webs and expanding
  the limits of the search

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Collocation main objective of the FRBR model

• The linking devices functioning in the current
  catalogues main entries, uniform titles, added
  entries, multilevel bibliographic descriptions,
  related editions, series statements have been
  redefined into a variety of bibliographic
  relations
• This is intended to promote the main objective
  of the FRBR model, the collocating function of a
  catalogue

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Bibliographic record in ISBD display
  ENCICLOPEDIA virtuala Nichita Stanescu
Resursa electronica / ed. îngrijita de
Alexandru Condeescu editori Remus Cernea,
Gabriela Bagrinovschi si Catalin Tenita
culegere de text Ioana Chicus . Bucuresti
Muzeul Literaturii Române Societatea Culturala
Noesis, 2003 . 1 disc optic (CD multimedia)
12 cm . Configuratia minima necesara Pentium I
200 Mhz, 64 MB RAM, placa video 4 MB, Microsoft
Reader, Flash Player si DivX . Rezolutia minima
recomandata 800 x600, Windows 9x-XP . Pe disc
09085A 0D03043
821.135.1Stanescu, N.1.01(031)(0.034.4)135.1
821.135.1.09Stanescu, N.(031)(0.034.4)135.1
929Stanescu, N. (0.034.4) 1.
Literatura româna 2. Opere 3. Istorie literara
4. Biografie 5. CD-ROM Multimedia 6.
Enciclopedie (Româna) 8. Stanescu, Nichita
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Contents of the multimedia CD

• The digital resource includes the address of a
  web site (http//www.nichitastanescu.net/) that
  contains a press release and gives valuable
  information on the material in it
• the complete works of Nichita Stanescu (poetry
  and essays)
• texts of interviews
• drawings made by the poet
• the poets biography
• audio-video documents in which he recites his
  poetry
• fragments of radio and TV interviews
• studies and criticisms on the poets work
• copies of manuscripts and other documents

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Works by NS in Romanian in the BCUB catalogue

• w1 11 elegii / Nichita Stanescu
• e1 11 elegii. - Bucuresti Editura Tineretului,
  1966
• e2 11 elegii. - Ed. bilingva. - Bucuresti
  Editura Eminescu, 1970
• w2 Amintiri din prezent / selectia textelor si
  însemnarea finala de
• Gheorghe Tomozei. - Bucuresti
  Sport-turism, 1985
• w3 Antimetafizica Nichita Stanescu însotit de
  Aurelian Titu
• Dumitrescu
• e1 Antimetafizica / postf. Dan Grigorescu. -
  Bucuresti Cartea
• Româneasca, 1985
• e2 Antimetafizica / pref. de Alexandru Paleologu
  postf. de Dan-
• Silviu Boerescu. Ed. a 2-a.
  - Bucuresti Allfa, cop. 1998

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Translated Works by NS in the BCUB catalogue

• w1 11 elegii 11 élégies / Nichita Stanescu. -
  Ed. bilingva. - Bucuresti Editura Eminescu,
  1970
• w2 Jedino moj zivot izbor stihova i eseja /
  Nikita Stanesku sa rumunskog preveo Adam
  Puslojic. - Beograd Knjizvne Novine, 1984
• w3 La leçon sur le cercle / Nichita Stanescu
  version française par Constantin Crisan. -
  Bucuresti Minerva, 1988
• w4 Nekas nav cits dzeja / Nikita Stenesku. -
  Riga Liesma, 1977
• w5 Perevod s rumynskogo / Nikita Stanesku, Marin
  Sorescu, Ana Blandiana, Ion Aleksandru. - Moskva
  Izd-stvo Progress, 1974
• w6 Poezii Poezija / Nichita Stanescu prepev
  od romanski Tasko Sarov priredile Dimitri M.
  Jon, Tasko Sarov. - Skopje Makedonska Kniga,
  1982
• w7 Unfinished work / Nichita Stanescu transl.
  Stavros Deligiorgis. - Bucuresti Cartea
  Româneasca, 1979

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Works by NS in full text version on the
multimedia CD

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• w1 Poezii nepublicate în volum I, II, III
• w2 Sensul iubirii, 1963
• w3 O viziune a sentimentelor 1964
• w4 Dreptul la timp, 1965
• w5 11 elegii, 1966 (see also slides 8 and 9)
• etc.

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Structure of the parent work
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Structure of the Video section
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The FRBR/CRM Harmonization Groups view

• A Composite work is a Work, expressed in
  Self-contained Expression and consists of several
  Self-contained parts (slide 13) or Fragment
  expressions (slide 14)
• At the Expression level, it is important to
  recognize the distinction between Self-contained
  Expressions (i.e. Expressions that constitute
  wholes), and Fragment Expressions (i.e.
  Expressions that were detached from a
  Self-contained Expression)

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Conclusions of the FRBR/CRM SIG regarding
Composite works

• Work has member Self-Contained Expression
• Expression Fragment is subsumed in (Is A)
  Expression
• Self-Contained Expression is subsumed in (Is
  A) Expression
• Self-Contained Expression has part
  Self-Contained Expression
• Expression Fragment is fragment of Expression

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Concluding remarks

• Terminology is still heterogeneous (different
  applications of the FRBR conceptual model give
  different names to entities dealt with)
• Applications are still restrictive (in AustLit
  the non-book material is excluded from the
  database, the RLG (RedLightGreen) of OCLC employs
  2 bibliographic levels out of 4)
• The future catalogues built according to the FRBR
  conceptual structure are expected to be able to
  make the appropriate distinction between
  different kinds of materials (GDMs), group
  together all entities that have shared
  attributes, make appropriate bibliographic
  relations among categories of documents
  representations

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Concluding remarks

• The complexity of the FRBR conceptual model is
  expected be tuned to the complexity of the work
  to be catalogued sparing the cataloguers efforts
  and avoiding redundancy
• The integration of traditional library material
  with digital resources and, recently, with museum
  objects within the same conceptual framework and
  their treatment in a consistent way are highly
  demanded but also extremely helpful in the
  context of global access to information resources