[WEB4LIB] RedLightGreen's FRBR implementation (RE: RE: Yahoo-OCLC

[Dempsey,Lorcan]

Fictionfinder provides another view of a FRBR-based approach.  

http://fictionfinder.oclc.org will bring you to a prototype of a
work-based approach to fiction. The rationale here is to show some
elements of FRBR but also to show how one can make more use of the
structure in the records than we typically do. The system is based on a
'frbrized' subset of WorldCat records, representing fiction.

There is some background at
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/frbr/fictionfinder.htm.

Incidentally, some may also be interested in our recently released top
1000 works list. We generated this from a 'frbrized' WorldCat, followed
by some manual refinement. The list is at
http://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/default.htm (with various sublists,
and other data), and a description of the approach is at
http://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/about.htm. It is ranked by volume
of holdings. What makes this list different from most others is that the
count is done on the basis of a FRBR-based consolidation of
manifesations of a work. 


Lorcan

Lorcan Dempsey [http://orweblog.oclc.org] 
OCLC Research  [http://www.oclc.org/research/]

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RedLightGreen (http://www.redlightgreen.com) from the Research Libraries
Group implemented FRBR in an abbreviated version (it doesn't fully
follow the IFLA model). OCLC has not yet put FRBR into production, at
least so far as I can tell from their Web site.

David Mattison
Victoria, BC, Canada
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