WELCOME TOTE PUNA LIBRARIES FORUM 2011

Day one

Te Puna Libraries’ Forum 31 March – 1 April 2011

Te Puna Strategic Advisory Committee

FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

prepared by Janess Stewart and Charlotte Strettton for the Te Puna Libraries Forum

2011

What is FRBR?

• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

• Developed by IFLA study group

• A conceptual model of the bibliographic universe

• Uses entity-relationship modelling

• Intended to be independent of any cataloguing

code or implemenatation

Concepts presented in FRBR report

• User tasks

• Entities – “things”

• Attributes – used to describe Entities

• Relationships – between Entities

User tasks

• FIND entities that correspond to the user’s

search criteria

• IDENTIFY the entity

• SELECT an entity from the resulting group

appropriate to the user’s need

• OBTAIN the selected entity

FRBR entities - 1

Group 1: products of intellectual and

artistic endeavour

• Work

• Expression

• Manifestation

• Item

FRBR entities - 2

Group 2: Those responsible for the

intellectual and artistic content

• Person

• Corporate body

• Family

FRBR entities - 3

Group 3: Subjects of works

• Concept

• Object

• Event

• Place

• Groups 1 and 2

Terminology is important

I have lost my book

We should order that book

I’d like to read that book in

English

That movie is based on

my favourite book

Taken from Pat Riva’s presentation “IFLA’s Conceptual models and RDA”, 2010

• Item

• Manifestation

• Expression

• Work

Group 1 entities

Time for a closer look...

Work

• Distinct creations

• Abstract

• Can be revised, updated, translated, illustrated & still be the same Work

• BUT if adapted, paraphrased, transformed (e.g. turned into a movie) then it is a new Work

Expression

• Abstract

• Conveys the form in which the Work will be made

real (e.g. text in English, musical sound, moving

image, musical notation, sound in French, map on

paper)

• Changing the form of the content changes the

Expression (e.g. text in English changed to text in

French)

Manifestation

• Physical embodiment of an Expression of a Work

• All copies produced together

• Current catalogue records describe Manifestations

• Changes in production/publication result in new

Manifestations (e.g. new publisher or print and PDF

versions)

Item

• Any single copy of a Manifestation

• Libraries issue Items to their users

• Items can be distinguished by physical

differences

Now it’s your turn

Exercise 1

• Look at what is in your box, as well as any

copies of “Pride and prejudice” you have

brought with you

• Sort this material into piles representing

Works

Exercise 2

• Look at the pile that represents the BBC

television programme

• Decide what Expressions you have and give

reasons for your decision

Exercise 3

• Look at the pile that represents the novel

“Pride and prejudice” as created by Jane

Austen

• Decide what Expressions you have and give

reasons for your decision

Exercise 4

• Look at all the material on your table

• Sort it into Manifestations

Exercise 5

• Look at all of the material you have on your

table

• Identify ways in which Items could be

differentiated

Why is this useful?

• FISO

• Focus on community served

• Allows flexibility

• Allows material to be grouped at different

levels

is exemplified by

RelationshipsWork

Expression

ManifestationItem

is realised through

is embodied in

Relationships – Group 1 to Group 1

Relationships - Group 1 to Group 2

Clipart courtesy FCIT

Jane Austen(the person)

Pride and prejudice(the work)

created by

creator of

Relationships – Group 1 to Group 3

has subject

subject of

Questions

Information

Sources

• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records : final report / IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records http://www.ifla.org/files/cataloguing/frbr/frbr_2008.pdf

• Introducing the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and related IFLA developments / Pat Riva http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-07/Riva.pdf

• FRBR : a guide to the perplexed / Robert L. Maxwell. Chicago : American Library Association, 2008.

• What is FRBR? : a conceptual model for the bibliographic universe / Barbara Tillett http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF

Acknowledgements

• Magnifying glass clipart courtesy of clker.com http://www.clker.com/clipart-2195.html

• Pointing finger clipart courtesy of clker.com http://www.clker.com/clipart-24995.html

• Image of 19th century fashion silhouette, clipart courtesy of FCIT http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/74000/74010/74010_century_d.htm

• Question mark clipart courtesy of pureclipart.com http://www.pureclipart.com/question-marks-clipart.php

Contact details

• Janess Stewart janess.stewart@dia.govt.nz

• Charlotte Stretton charlotte.stretton@dia.govt.nz