FRBRFunctional Requirements for Bibliographic
Record
A practical experience at the Université catholique de
Louvain Belgium
Claire Dupont| Cataloging and authority control
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with the collaboration of
Antoinette Le Maire
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Historical aspects UCL has been using the VTLS FRBR implementation since December 2003.
In 2004 creation of the « Académie Louvain » : a consortium of 4 belgian Universities.
Migration of data from those 4 universities in a Consortium DB. Only UCL was running FRBR before.
We moved to the VTLS FRBR Consortium environment in April 2006.
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Positive aspects “Global” representation of an "intellectual" or "artistic" universe through :
• Collocation.
• Greater visibility for the end user.
• Accessibility to "big" works, for examples works of philosophers, great writers, correspondence, and so on.
• Structural relationships from work to work.
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Ability to extract FRBR records in a non FRBR format like MARC or XML for exchange and for harvesting in a Union catalog MODS based (so VTLS Virtua is allowing interoperability even for FRBR records).
Ability to find FRBR candidates, based on a script integrated in VTLS Virtua, and to automatically « FRBR-ize » the good candidates in the catalog.
We are working on a script based on « thingISBN » to find more FRBR candidates in our catalog (in development – examples further)
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But nothing is perfect …
Limits of the MARC format and the mapping* (content notes, edition statement for example).
No way to identify a FRBR record in the index entries. This would be very helpful.
Reverse tree : so useful but unfortunately not yet active in the gateway (let’s be patient …).
* DELSEY, Tom. Functional analysis of the MARC 21 bibliographic and holding formats. Washington : Library of Congress, 2002. Ce document est disponible en ligne sur le web à l’adresse suivante : http://www.loc.gov/marc/marc-functional-analysis/original_frbr.html
« adapted » for VTLS Virtua by John Espley
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Our database : a mixed catalog FRBR and non-FRBR records living together in a unique
catalog
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FRBR and non-FRBR records living together in a unique catalog
Non-FRBR recordFRBR record
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Our database : a mixed catalogue
FRBR and non-FRBR records living together.
The display changes automatically.
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The display changes automatically
Non FRBR recordFRBR record
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Our database : a mixed catalogue
Each level is displayed according to the Local Level field
"W" "E" "M" .
FRBR and non-FRBR records living together.
The display changes automatically.
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Each level is displayed according to the Local Level field
"W" "E" "M" Work
ManifestationExpression
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Our database : a mixed catalogue
Each level is displayed according to the Local Level field
"W" "E" "M" .
FRBR and non-FRBR records living together.
The display changes automatically.
An automatic link between each level is created through 001 and 004 tags.
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An automatic link between each level is created through 001 and 004 tags.
Work
Expression
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Creating a new FRBR record
How does it work ?
All the information is already existing in the non FRBR record …
Expression
Work
Manifestation
Item
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Adding a record to an existing FRBR record
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Using a script based on « thingISBN » to find FRBR candidates
BIBID 959909 : 9780151369027 <=> 015136902X100 $a : 245 $a : The great code : the Bible and literature /260 $b : Harvest books/Harcourt,260 $c : 1983ISBN : 0156364808ISBN : 0156027801ISBN : 015136902XISBN : 0140129286ISBN : 0774701366ISBN : 0744800056ISBN : 0710090382 0710090382 [BIBID 1230361] 100 $a : Frye, Northrop 245 $a : The great code: the bible and literature 260 $b : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 260 $c : 1982ISBN : 077470134XISBN : 0143054333ISBN : 857559012XISBN : 963076038XISBN : 9061682495 9061682495 [BIBID 260329] 100 $a : Frye, Northrop 245 $a : De grote code : de Bijbel en de literatuur / 260 $b : SUN , 260 $c : 1986.
• A script identifies this ISBN in a Manifestation record
• Make a search in LibraryThing
• Results : list of related ISBNs
• New search in our database to identify those related ISBNs
• Result : FRBR candidates
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Some examples … Example 1 : translations of a work
Work
Expressionssorted alphabetically (you can change the order manually)
Manifestations
Item
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Work
Expressions
Manifestationssorted by descending order "publication dates" (you can change the order manually)
Item
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Example 2 : structural relationships from work to work
Super Work
Works
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Example 3 : correspondenceAuthor search on "Freud"
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“Global” representation of the correspondence of Freud
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Example 4 Title search on "The adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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Two works in the same book …
Appears once under the title " The adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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If I make a title search on "The adventures of Huckelberry Finn" ...
Appears once under the title " The adventures of Huckelberry Finn"
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Example 5 : other material DVD
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CD audio
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Thesis : paper and electronic versions
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FRBR and the future …
FRBR is opening the road to :
new cataloging methods
analyzing deeply notion of "seriality" and dynamic structure of electronic resources
new model for authority data, hope to soon have FRAD implemented
RDA/FRBR is opening a new universe which will abolish the MARC limitations
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Any questions ?
Claire Dupont
Cataloging and authority control
Université catholique de Louvain
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