Module 2:

FRBR refresher

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Learning outcomes

• Identify FRBR and FRAD entities and apply them to library material

• Understand FRBR and FRAD user tasks

Functional requirements for bibliographic records : final report / IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, 2008, p. 14, “Group 1 entities and primary relationships”, Figure 3.1

Group One Entities

WORK

EXPRESSION

MANIFESTATION

ITEM

is realised through

is embodied in

is exemplified by

FRBR and FRAD

TextIllustrations

Print run; ISBN; Edition; Series

Library’s copy

Whose bottom is this?

is owned byis produced by

is realized by

is created by

Work

Expression

Manifestation

Item

PERSONFAMILY

CORPORATE BODY

FRBR and FRAD

Wayne Lynch

Text Illustrations

EditionPublisher

Series

Gareth Stevens Publishers

J591.41 LYN

Stonnington Library and Information

Service

Work

has a subject

has a subject

has a subject

WORKWork

ExpressionManifestation

Item

ConceptObjectEventPlace

PersonFamily

Corporate body

FRBR and FRAD AnimalsButtocks

FRBR and FRAD

• Entities, Attributes and Relationships

Relationship

Relationship

Entity(Attributes)

Entity(Attributes)

Entity(Attributes)

Relationship

FRBR User Tasks

Activity

Virtua ILS (VTLS)

Display created using linked data

http://www.vtls.com/products/virtua

Virtua ILS (VTLS)

http://www.vtls.com/products/virtua

ExampleseXtensible Catalog

http://www.extensiblecatalog.orgLibrary Thing

http://www.librarything.com/Indiana University’s “Scherzo”

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/scherzo/Austlit

http://www.austlit.edu.au/Open Library

http://openlibrary.org/

Exercise