The FRBR Family of Conceptual Models

Since 1998 when FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) was first published by IFLA, the effort to develop and apply FRBR has been extended in many innovative and experimental directions. Papers in this volume explain and expand upon the extended family of FRBR models including Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD), Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD), and the object-oriented version of FRBR known as FRBRoo. Readers will learn about dialogues between the FRBR Family and other modeling technologies, specific implementations and extensions of FRBR in retrieval systems, catalog codes employing FRBR, a wide variety of research that uses the FRBR model, and approaches to using FRBR for the Semantic Web.

Librarians of all stripes as well as library and information science students and researchers can use this volume to bring their knowledge of the FRBR model and its implementation up to date.

This book was published as a special issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.

Richard P. Smiraglia has defined the meaning of "a work" empirically, and has revealed the ubiquitous phenomenon of instantiation among information objects. He is a member of the iSchool at UW Milwaukee’s Information Organization Research Group, author of the groundbreaking The Nature of ‘A Work’ (2001), and editor-in-chief of the journal Knowledge Organization.

Pat Riva is Coordinator of the Monographs Section in the Cataloguing Directorate for Heritage Collections at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec in Montreal, Canada. Since 2005, she has been an elected member of the IFLA Cataloguing Section Standing Committee and chair of the FRBR Review Group.

Maja Žumer is Professor of Information Science at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is a member of the IFLA FRBR Review Group, Aggregates Working Group and FRBR/CRM Harmonisation Working Group. With her research group she is focusing on different aspects FRBR and has published extensively on these topics.