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FRBRFRBR
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
Presented by
Basumatary, Bwsrang
Nag, Dashrath Singh
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Sep. 4th, 2014
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Agendas:
What is FRBR ?
Basic concept of FRBR
FRBR entities
FRBR entity relatonship Model
Needs of FRBR
Benefits of FRBR
FRBR and RDA
Conclusion
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What is FRBR ?
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
FRBR developed in a seminar on Bibliographic record held in Stockholm in 1990
A resolution was passed in that seminar a study be commissioned to define the functional
requirement of bibliographic record in relation to the variety of users needs and the variety of
media
A group was formed in 1991 by IFLA.
FRBR report was approved in 1997
IFLA Publication group published in 1998
A new conceptual model for bibliographic universe with a strong users focus
A conceptual entity relationship model that relates user tasks of retrieval and access in online
library catalogue and bibliographic database from a users perspective
The purpose of this entity relationship analysis was to discover logical nature of bibliographic
data in terms of entity, attributes and relationship
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FRBR basic concept
FRBR is entity relationship model
Basic concepts :
Entity: Key object that users are interested in findings
Attributes (data element): Bibliographic data with which entities are
associated
Relationship: meaningful relationship between two or more entities
Fig. 1: relation between one to another entity
Example of Relationship
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FRBR entities
Ten entity under three groups
Group 1:
1. Work
2. Expression
3. Manifestation
4. Item
Group 2:
5. Person
6. Corporate Body
Group 3:
7. Concept
8. Object
9. Event
10. Place
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FRBR entity relatonship Model
Group 1: It is the product of intellectual & artistic endevour
Work: a distinct intellectual or artistic creation
Expression: The intellectual or artistic realization of a work in some
forms (i.e language, alpha numaric, and music)
Manifastation: Physical embodiment of an expression,(eg. print
publication, CD, DVD)
Item: single examlar of manifestation(eg. one copy of book)
Fig. Group 1 entity relationshipFig. Group 1 entity relationship Eg. Group 1 entity
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Cont........
Group 2: Those responsible for the intellectual and artistic content
Person: name, digignation, date,place of birth etc.
eg. William Shakespeare
Corporate Body: Institution name, number...
eg. Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Fig. Group 2 entity relationshipFig. Group 2 entity relationship
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Cont........
Group 3: It is the subject of work
Concept: Abstract/ Idea
Object: Material thing
title of object, date of production
Event: Action/ occurance
Date, celebrety event
Place: Location
term for the places
Fig. Group 3 entity relationship
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Needs of FRBR
Improve the users experience in locating of information
Guide systems designs for the future
Guide rule makers
Cut cost for the description and access to resources in our
libraries
Position information provides to better operates in the internet
environment and beyond
To make the catalog work best for patrons.
To avoid becoming merginalized by other information discovery
services.
To encourage redesign of our systems, to move us into liked data
information discovery and navigation systems in the internet
environment.
To make bibliographic description and access data more
internationally acceptable.
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Benefits of FRBR
Collocation
Better organisation to catalogue
More option to display
identifying elements
pathways
Essier cataloguing and Circulation
Helps upgrade Cataloging Efforts. Achieving higher quality and
more effectively shared cataloging efforts with easier maintenance.
In the Digital Environment the FRBR helps better manage to the
resources.
It helps easier integration of resources and systems among
libraries and beyond in the digital information environment
because it was created considering a wide range of materials,
media, and formats such as textual, cartographic, audiovisual,
graphic and film.
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Cont........
The FRBR relationships can be used for designing visual tools to
facilitate information seeking in the bibliographic universe
FRBR opened the road to new method of cataloging/new model of
subject cataloging
New model of authority data
FRBR can contribute toward the future integration of all resources in
all of the world's repositories, including libraries, bookstores, music
and film archives, publishing houses.
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FRBR and RDA
FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
In 1998 FRBR was published by IFLA
RDA: Resource Discription and Access
FRBR as foundation for RDA
1997 international conference was held in Toronto, Canada for princiles
and future development of AACR
RDA is the successor of AACR2
2005 name change to RDA, to reflect need to closer align with FRBR and
international view (removed anglo amerian)
RDA is a set of cataloguig rules based upon the FRBR conceptual model
and FRBR principles.
In order to better understand RDA we should get a grasp of what FRBR
is.
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Conclusion
The FRBR conceptual model is an important feature in the library
and information science.
The FRBR model brought a change in the organization and display of
bibliographic records as well as the structure and content of those
records.
The entity relationship modeling technique on which the FRBR model
is based is also being employed to analyze authority data.
Cataloging rules are changing, in part in response to the model. The
FRBR conceptual model appeals to those whose goal is to make sense
of the bibliographic universe
Although there are unresolved issues associated with it, the FRBR
model still emerges to many to represents a hope for rationalizing and
controlling that universe and thereby increasing its usefulness.