Metadata for scientific publications contain various explicit and implicit spatio-temporal references. Data on conference locations as well as author and editor affiliations – both changing over time – enable insights into the geographic distribution of scientific fields and particular specializations. At the same time, these byproducts of scientific bibliographies offer a great opportunity to ...

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) conceptual model is beginning to gain recognition. This paper presents FRBR including possibilities and limitations of current standards and practices in terms of expressing the FRBR model. It is claimed that national bibliographies should benefit the most from FRBR, as they contain large quantities of high quality bibliographic data on m...

Chris Leeder is a Doctoral Student, Karen Markey is a Professor, and Elizabeth Yakel is a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. The researchers wish to thank the members of the BiblioBouts team: Victor Rosenberg, Beth St. Jean, Fritz Swanson, Brian Jennings, Greg Peters, Andrew Calvetti, and three unive...