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WELCOME TOTE PUNA LIBRARIES FORUM 2011
Day one
Te Puna Libraries’ Forum 31 March – 1 April 2011
Te Puna Strategic Advisory Committee
FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
prepared by Janess Stewart and Charlotte Strettton for the Te Puna Libraries Forum
2011
What is FRBR?
• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
• Developed by IFLA study group
• A conceptual model of the bibliographic universe
• Uses entity-relationship modelling
• Intended to be independent of any cataloguing
code or implemenatation
Concepts presented in FRBR report
• User tasks
• Entities – “things”
• Attributes – used to describe Entities
• Relationships – between Entities
User tasks
• FIND entities that correspond to the user’s
search criteria
• IDENTIFY the entity
• SELECT an entity from the resulting group
appropriate to the user’s need
• OBTAIN the selected entity
FRBR entities - 1
Group 1: products of intellectual and
artistic endeavour
• Work
• Expression
• Manifestation
• Item
FRBR entities - 2
Group 2: Those responsible for the
intellectual and artistic content
• Person
• Corporate body
• Family
FRBR entities - 3
Group 3: Subjects of works
• Concept
• Object
• Event
• Place
• Groups 1 and 2
Terminology is important
I have lost my book
We should order that book
I’d like to read that book in
English
That movie is based on
my favourite book
Taken from Pat Riva’s presentation “IFLA’s Conceptual models and RDA”, 2010
• Item
• Manifestation
• Expression
• Work
Group 1 entities
Time for a closer look...
Work
• Distinct creations
• Abstract
• Can be revised, updated, translated, illustrated & still be the same Work
• BUT if adapted, paraphrased, transformed (e.g. turned into a movie) then it is a new Work
Expression
• Abstract
• Conveys the form in which the Work will be made
real (e.g. text in English, musical sound, moving
image, musical notation, sound in French, map on
paper)
• Changing the form of the content changes the
Expression (e.g. text in English changed to text in
French)
Manifestation
• Physical embodiment of an Expression of a Work
• All copies produced together
• Current catalogue records describe Manifestations
• Changes in production/publication result in new
Manifestations (e.g. new publisher or print and PDF
versions)
Item
• Any single copy of a Manifestation
• Libraries issue Items to their users
• Items can be distinguished by physical
differences
Now it’s your turn
Exercise 1
• Look at what is in your box, as well as any
copies of “Pride and prejudice” you have
brought with you
• Sort this material into piles representing
Works
Exercise 2
• Look at the pile that represents the BBC
television programme
• Decide what Expressions you have and give
reasons for your decision
Exercise 3
• Look at the pile that represents the novel
“Pride and prejudice” as created by Jane
Austen
• Decide what Expressions you have and give
reasons for your decision
Exercise 4
• Look at all the material on your table
• Sort it into Manifestations
Exercise 5
• Look at all of the material you have on your
table
• Identify ways in which Items could be
differentiated
Why is this useful?
• FISO
• Focus on community served
• Allows flexibility
• Allows material to be grouped at different
levels
is exemplified by
RelationshipsWork
Expression
ManifestationItem
is realised through
is embodied in
Relationships – Group 1 to Group 1
Relationships - Group 1 to Group 2
Clipart courtesy FCIT
Jane Austen(the person)
Pride and prejudice(the work)
created by
creator of
Relationships – Group 1 to Group 3
has subject
subject of
Questions
Information
Sources
• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records : final report / IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records http://www.ifla.org/files/cataloguing/frbr/frbr_2008.pdf
• Introducing the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and related IFLA developments / Pat Riva http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-07/Riva.pdf
• FRBR : a guide to the perplexed / Robert L. Maxwell. Chicago : American Library Association, 2008.
• What is FRBR? : a conceptual model for the bibliographic universe / Barbara Tillett http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF
Acknowledgements
• Magnifying glass clipart courtesy of clker.com http://www.clker.com/clipart-2195.html
• Pointing finger clipart courtesy of clker.com http://www.clker.com/clipart-24995.html
• Image of 19th century fashion silhouette, clipart courtesy of FCIT http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/74000/74010/74010_century_d.htm
• Question mark clipart courtesy of pureclipart.com http://www.pureclipart.com/question-marks-clipart.php
Contact details
• Janess Stewart [email protected]
• Charlotte Stretton [email protected]