Functional requirements for bibliographic records: Introducing the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and related IFLA developments

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...

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...

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...

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

Mapping Bibliographic Records with Bibliographic Hash Keys

This poster presents a hash key for bibliographic records called bibkey. It is shown how bibkey can be used to detect duplicates and to map similar bibliographic records among distributed databases.