Presented by Bwsrang Basumatary Library and Information Science TISS Mumbai

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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.

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Basumatary, BwsrangBasumatary, Bwsrang
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