[WEB4LIB] RE: Yahoo-OCLC toolbar

[Karen Coyle]

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 16:52, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> > [...]
> > just sorry that FRBRization is trailing Google/Yahooization,
> 
> Has anybody started to implement FRBR?

Remember what FRBR stands for "Functional Requirements for Bibliographic
Records." It's not a record format... at least not yet. And I don't
think it will be a record format until it first inspires a new set of
cataloging rules. Quite honestly, AACR is about as un-FRBR as you can
get. The "implementations" that folks like OCLC have done are
interesting experiments but greatly limited by the content of the "old
cataloging style" records. I very much hope that we'll progress beyond
the "unit record" to something that better reflects our current
information world, but we're far from toay. Also, FRBR is aimed at
bringing together different versions of the same work; it doesn't help
with clustering documents that are topically related.

>   These issues (who creates the
> bibliographic records and who owns them) are not covered in the FRBR
> document, are they?  

No, FRBR is about describing documents and other information resources.

> Both Wikipedia and CC are post-dotcom entities,
> founded in 2001 and 2002, respectively.  It's a new century.

It's hard for me to think of Wikipedia and CC in the same mental breath.
CC is a statement of rights made by the rights holder. Wikipedia is a
collective way to create constantly evolving documents. How do you see
them interacting, or do you?

kc
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