FRBR: BASICS

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FRBR BASICS INFLUENCE ON AACR

• A presentation by Kate Harcourt
• Columbia University Libraries
• harcourt_at_columbia.edu
• April 19, 2004
• ARLIS 2004 New York City

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Required Reading

• Published by K.G. Saur in 1998 and available
  online.

http//www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.htm
http//www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf
IFLA Cataloguing Sections Working Group on FRBR
http//www.ifla.org/VII/s13/wgfrbr/wgfrbr.htm
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FRBR IN PERSPECTIVE

• Paris Principles in 1961
• ISBDs in 1969
• AACR in 1967 and 1978
• FRBR 1997-
• ETC.

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FRBR BEGINNINGS

• The 1990 Stockholm Seminar commissioned a study
  to define the functional requirements of
  bibliographic records.
• Worked on by IFLA Study Group on Functional
  Requirements for Bibliographic Records, 1992-1995
• Approved by IFLA Section on Cataloging, 1997
  published by Saur in 1998
• Incorporated into JSC Strategic Plan for AACR
  2001/2002

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FRBR GOALS

• to delineate in clearly defined terms the
  functions performed by the bibliographic record
  with respect to various media, various
  applications and various user needs.
• to recommend a basic level of functionality and
  basic requirements for records created by
  national bibliographic agencies that would meet
  essential user needs.
• FRBR is not a new cataloging code.

AACR3
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ENTITY-RELATIONSHIP MODEL

• Source The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  (09 FEB 02)
• entity-relationship model ltdatabase,
  specificationgt An approach to data modelling
  proposed by P. Chen in 1976. The model says that
  you divide your database in two logical parts,
  entities (e.g. "customer", "product") and
  relations ("buys", "pays for").
  Entity-relationship diagrams can be used to
  represent a model.

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ORGANIZATION OF THE FRBR REPORT

• Part 1 Definition of Entities and their
  Attributes
• Part 2 Bibliographic Relationships
• Part 3 A national level bibliographic record
  for all types of materials
• Part 4 User Tasks (e.g., Find, Identify, Select
  Obtain)

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ENTITY-RELATIONSHIP MODEL

• Entities
• Relationships
• Attributes

Shakespeare Dates
Hamlet English
Relationship author
Entity 1
Entity 2
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FRBR ENTITIES

• Group 1 The products of intellectual or artistic
  endeavor
• Work
• Expression
• Manifestation
• Item

• Group 2 Those responsible for production or
  custodianship of group 1 entities
• Person
• Corporate Body
• Group 3 Subjects of works
• Concept
• Object
• Event
• Place

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AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT

• The next few slides were published in Barbara B.
  Tillett, Bibliographic Relationships. In
  Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge,
  edited by Carol A. Bean and Rebecca Green, 19-35.
  Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

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Group 1
Work
FRBR
is realized through
Expression
is embodied in
Manifestation
recursive
is exemplified by
one
Item
many
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Group 2
Work
Expression
FRBR
Manifestation
Item
is owned by
Person
is produced by
is realized by
Corporate Body
is created by
many
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Group 3
Work
has as subject
FRBR
has as subject
has as subject
many
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FRBR Entity Levels
Family of works
Work
Expression
Manifestation
Paper
PDF
HTML
Item
Copy 1 Autographed
Copy 2
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FRBERIZING AACR2

• A new interest in cataloging
• Rule revision
• AACR3

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FRBERIZING A RULE

• 1.5A3 If an item is available in different
  formats (e.g., as text and microfilm as sound
  disc and sound tape reel), give the physical
  description of the format in hand)
• 1.5A3 If manifestations of a work are available
  in different formats

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FRBERIZING RELATIONSHIPS

• Collocation
• When is a work or an expression a new work or
  expression?
• Relators
• Authority Control in AACR3

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Work
Same Expression
New Work
New Expression
B. Tillett Dec. 2001
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GMDS AND UNIFORM TITLES

• GMDs
• Uniform titles

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MORE FRBR

• Pre-conference at ALA Annual 2004 in Orlando.
• Back to the Future Understanding the Functional
  Requirements of Bibliographic Records Model
  (FRBR) and its Impact on Users, OPACS, and
  Knowledge Organization
• Sponsored by VTLS Blackwell's Book Services
• Thursday and Friday, June 24-25, 2004