FRBR

FRBR is a Sigle, which means:

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records translates into French by functional Specifications of the bibliographic records

The FRBR are a conceptual modeling of the contained informations in the Bibliographic records of the libraries.

Principles

The FRBR organize the various components of bibliographical description (authorities, prone accesses and information on the document themselves) in three groups of entities connected together by relations.

The first group of entities represents the various aspects from what a user can find in the products of a mental or artistic activity, i.e. documents and their various versions. These entities are:

work: a intellectual or artistic creation given (for example: Germinal of Zola)
expression: a realization of this intellectual creation (for example, English translation of Germinal by Roger Pearson)
demonstration: matérialisation of an expression (for example, Germinal of Zola, translated by Roger Pearson and published at Penguin Books in 2004)
item: a specimen isolated from a demonstration (for example, the specimen of Germinal of Zola, translated by Roger Pearson and published at Penguin Books in 2004, which is with the public library of Perpignan).

Thus, a work can have several expressions (various languages, a film adaptation… although in this case one can consider that it is about a new work) which themselves have several demonstrations (a wholesale edition characters, a version in K7 and one in DVD) made up each one of items. The great originality of the model lies in the concept of work, which makes it possible to bring closer for example a novel and its translations or adaptations. This bringing together remains generally implicit in the catalogs of libraries.

The second group of entities corresponds to the modeling of the natural persons or morals which have a responsibility in the intellectual or artistic contents, the material production and the distribution, or the legal management of the entities of the first group. There are two kinds of them: people, and communities. The concept of relation makes it possible to mark the way in which the people intervene compared to work, expression, demonstration or item. Among these relations, one can find that of production or creation, but also, for example, that of membership (to say to which library or nobody belongs one item).

The third group gathers entities which are the subject of works: concept, object, event, place. The relation of subject (for example, an event is prone of a work) can also function with group 2 (a person is prone of a work, in the case of a book on Zola) and 1 groups it (a work is prone of another work, in the case of a book on Germinal of Zola).

Each entity can be described by attributes such as title, form, date, etc These attributes correspond to information which appears commonly in the bibliographic records of the catalogs of libraries. Finally the model takes into account 4 operations carried out by the users:

to find
to identify
to select
to obtain

and the relevance of the attributes defines to carry out these operations.

External bonds is

Presentation of the FRBR on the site of the National library of France
the final report of the work group on the FRBR
a bibliography (60p.)
the FRBR, what it? HTTP: /www.figoblog.org/document594.php Figoblog

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