Metadata related to cultural items such as movies, books and music is a valuable resource that currently is exploited in many applications and services based on mashup and linked data. Unfortunately, existing metadata formats do not have the semantics needed for versatile integration and reuse of such information across domains and applications. The conceptual model in the Functional Requiremen...

Many experiments and studies have been conducted on the application of FRBR as an implementation model for bibliographic databases, in order to improve the services of resource discovery and transmit better perception of the information spaces represented in catalogues. One of these applications is the attempt to identify the FRBR work instances shared by several bibliographic records. In our w...

In a global context which promotes the use of explicit semantics for sharing information and developing new services, the MAchine Readable Cataloguing (MARC) format that is commonly used by libraries worldwide has demonstrated its limitations. The semantic model for representing cultural items presented in the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) is expected to be a successo...