Folklore Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Oral Traditions and FRBR

TOWARDS ORGANIZING AND RETRIEVING CLASSICAL MUSIC BASED ON FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORDS (FRBR) By

Application of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) to Music

This paper describes work applying the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model to music, as the basis for implementing a fully FRBRcompliant music digital library system. A detailed analysis of the FRBR and Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) entities and attributes is presented. The paper closes with a discussion of the ways in which FRBR is gaining adoptio...

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

Requirements for Bibliographic Records F unctional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) [1], a report developed by the IFLA Study Group on the functional requirements for bibliographic records, has been discussed and explored for nearly a decade. FRBR offers a new perspective on how to create and relate records about information packages for more effective support of user information t...

FRBR : The End of the Road or a New Beginning ? by Maja Žumer Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

Maja Žumer is an associate professor of library and information science at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Her research interests include design and evaluation of information retrieval systems, end-user interfaces and, recently, the FRBR model, particularly implementation aspects. She is a member of the IFLA FRBR Review Group, the chair of the Working Group for “Guidelines for national ...

Supporting multilingual bibliographic resource discovery with Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

This paper reports an experiment exploring the hypothesis that an innovative application of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) principles can complement traditional bibliographic resource discovery systems in order to improve the user experience. A specialized service was implemented that, when given a plain list of results from a regular online catalogue, it is able t...