Consolidation of FRBR Family Models Focusing on FRBR Library Reference Model

FRBR-ML: A FRBR-based framework for semantic interoperability

Metadata related to cultural items such as literature, music and movies is a valuable resource that is currently exploited in many applications and services based on semantic web technologies. A vast amount of such information has been created by memory institutions in the last decades using different standard or ad hoc schemas, and a main challenge is to make this legacy data accessible as reu...

Building a “FRBR-Inspired” Catalog: The Perseus Digital Library Experience

Creating better library information systems: the road to FRBR-land

Introduction. To provide valuable services in the future, libraries will need to create better information systems and set up an infrastructure more in line with the current technologies. The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records conceptual model provides a basis for this transformation, but there are still a number of unresolved issues connected to its actual implementation. Method...

Is An XML document a FRBR Manifestation or a FRBR Expression? — Both, Because FRBR Entities are not Types, but Roles1

At Extreme 2003 a “late breaking” presentation by members of the UIUC/GSLIS Electronic Publishing Research group argued that XML Documents could not be assigned to either of the two plausible FRBR entity classes, manifestation or expression, since XML Documents appear to both have and lack some characteristics of each class. A “double aspect” theory was proposed where a single XML Document can ...

Publication Metadata in CERIF: Inspiration by FRBR

The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and its Scholarly Works Application Profile (SWAP) are used to inspire the representation of complex real world situations in the publication part of the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF), the model for Current Research Information Systems (CRIS). CERIF is found to have room for different approaches to representing m...