Navigating in Bibliographic Catalogues

This article analyzes similarities and differences between Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) entities and their representation in the Colon Classification call numbers. Dealing with lack of organization in library shelves and in the lists of bibliographic records resulting from users’ searches in our present online catalogs, the article discusses the chance to organize bibliographic resources by FRBR entities using the model of the facet formula provided for call numbers in Colon Classification and by means of relevant, ready, and useable extant data. Main results of this analysis are: correspondences between FRBR entities and categories expressed in Ranganathan's bibliographic system can be found; a sound but not completely FRBRized bibliographic arrangement can be reached by call numbers also in catalogs not structurally capable to satisfy the FRBR model; in Ranganathan's classified catalog1 semantic and semiotic cataloging are perfectly integrated, giving access to the bibliographic universe as a whole; facet formula for call numbers could be used as an identifying device.

This article reports on a study exploring Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and a preservation model (Multiple Description Coding Compression [MDC2]) for addressing YouTube's multiple variant and preservation challenges. A sample included 20 YouTube segments: 10 connected with US astronaut Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon, and 10 with the 1966 classic movie, Batman: The Movie. The FRBR analysis used a qualitative content analysis, and the MDC2 exploration used protocol modeling. Results indicate that FRBR is applicable to YouTube, although the FRBR analyses required localization of the Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item entities. The MDC2 exploration illustrates an approach for exploring FRBR in the context of other models.

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Content-Based Indexing of Spatial Objects in Digital Libraries

The FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) model was a revolutionary development that presented a new view of the bibliographic universe. Although FRBR has been widely accepted and extensively studied, actual implementations have been limited. This can be partly attributed to: (1) the vague and controversial definitions of the group 1 entities—work, expression, manifestation, and item, (2) that various types of information resources pose different issues, and (3) the rapid digitization of information. The various definitions of information resources are identified and reviewed here. To simplify the modeling, this study is limited to a single type of information resource: textual documents consisting of a sequence of words that may include non-textual material in the form of tables, symbols, equations, and/or illustrations. The FRBR model is analyzed in the context of textual documents with particular emphasis on digital documents to better understand the group 1 entities. An overview of the problematic aspects of the FRBR model is discussed and possible solutions are proposed.

Libraries and the information services they provide on the Internet face a set of challenges imposed by rapid developments in information technology and remote communications. The direct search service in the library catalog is one of the most prominent services provided by libraries, and the importance of this service is increasing in library clusters that rely on the catalog. Unified as a database that collects bibliographic records to secure the largest possible amount of sources and information by inventorying and controlling intellectual production and providing access to it through network ports while facilitating the process of easy and rapid access. In this research, reference is made to one of the recent trends in the field of indexing (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) as a standard established by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) that works to regulate the acquisition of traditional materials and digital entities located within the bibliographic description to achieve the required bibliographic control. This is in order to keep pace with the continuous growth of publishing and intellectual production, and on the other hand, the need to accommodate the change resulting from the emergence of new forms through electronic publishing, and the emergence of networks for accessing information sources.

Bibliographic relationships have taken on even greater importance in the context of ongoing efforts to integrate concepts from the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) into cataloging codes and database structures. In MARC 21, the linking entry fields are a major mechanism for expressing relationships between bibliographic records. Taxonomies of bibliographic relationships have been proposed by Tillett, with an extension by Smiraglia, and in FRBR itself. The present exercise is to provide a detailed bidirectional mapping of the MARC 21 linking fields to these two schemes. The correspondence of the Tillett taxonomic divisions to the MARC categorization of the linking fields as chronological, horizontal, or vertical is examined as well. Application of the findings to MARC format development and system functionality is discussed.

Digital libraries maintain information lifecycles for the digital objects contained therein. Typically these information lifecycles stipulate that a digital object is deleted at the end of its lifecycle. We propose a transient framework for digital libraries in which suitable objects are transformed through a state transition lifecycle thereby reducing the need to ever delete the digital object from the digital library, Transience works for certain media types and we describe and positively evaluate a prototype deployment in the domain of security video.

The article analyzes the major changes of the display systems of bibliographic data occurred over the past 20 years. The catalogue is examined as a communication tool in relation with the new technologies that allow its understanding and use. The online catalogs accessible offsite, outside the library, have changed with the evolution of technology and of the Web. They stay beside and together with other kind of contents attainable through the library, while libraries are testing the centralization of access. New actors and cataloguing tradition are experiencing new communication systems, the librarianship is choosing if stay outside or inside this process.

Libraries and museums developed rules for the description of their collections prior to formalizing the conceptualization reflected in such rules. That formalizing process resulted in two conceptual models: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) for bibliographic information (published in 1998), and CIDOC (International Council of Museums, Comité international pour la Documentation) CRM (Conceptual Reference Model) for museum information (issued as ISO standard 21127 in 2006). An international working group was formed in 2003 with the purpose of harmonizing these two models. The resulting model, FRBROO, is an extension to CIDOC CRM. It adds to FRBR the dynamic aspects of CIDOC CRM, and a number of refinements. FRBROO lends itself well to the linked data environment.

As resources have become ever more complicated in a digital world, it is evident that cataloging practices and the metadata standards we use to guide these practices are becoming more constraining. Recent developments within the library community can have a significant impact on serials cataloging and may help improve information retrieval for the end user. While the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) holds some promise for improving the representation of serials, linked data principles may further transform the way in which resources and the relationships between them are captured and presented to our users. By taking description out of the current record constraints, serials librarians will better be able to express the relationships between multiple versions of the same publication, and how a particular journal has changed over time. The linked data model also opens up many opportunities for the provision of value-added content to bibliographic descriptions.

The treatment of subjects by Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) has attracted less attention than some of its other aspects, but there seems to be a general consensus that it needs work. While some have proposed elaborating its subject categories—concepts, objects, events, and places—to increase their semantic complexity, a working group of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has recently made a promising proposal that essentially bypasses those categories in favor of one entity, thema. This article gives an overview of the proposal and discusses its relevance to another difficult problem, ambiguities in the establishment of headings for buildings.

PurposeThis article explores citing and referencing systems in social sciences and medicine articles from different theoretical and practical perspectives, considering bibliographic references as a facet of descriptive representation.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis of citing and referencing elements (i.e. bibliographic references, mentions, quotations and respective in-text reference pointers) identified citing and referencing habits within disciplines under consideration and errors occurring over the long term as stated by previous studies now expanded. Future expected trends of information retrieval from bibliographic metadata was gathered by approaching these referencing elements from the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) entities concepts.FindingsReference styles do not fully accomplish with their role of guiding authors and publishers on providing concise and well-structured bibliographic metadata within bibliographic references. Trends on representative description revision suggest a predicted distancing on the ways information is approached by bibliographic references and bibliographic catalogs adopting FRBR concepts, including the description levels adopted by each of them under the perspective of the FRBR entities concept.Research limitations/implicationsThis study was based on a subset of medicine and social sciences articles published in 2019 and, therefore, it may not be taken as a final and broad coverage. Future studies expanding these approaches to other disciplines and chronological periods are encouraged.Originality/valueBy approaching citing and referencing issues as descriptive representation's facets, findings on this study may encourage further studies that will support information science and computer science on providing tools to become bibliographic metadata description simpler, better structured and more efficient facing the revision of descriptive representation actually in progress.

This article proposes a new way of cataloging serials using linked data and Resource Description Framework (RDF), as well as how the concepts of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) can be expanded to apply to journal content at both the journal level and the article level, all with an eye toward ease of access and understanding for users.

This study aims to find a method to adapt Korean bibliographic records to the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) structure. It also intends to verify that this conversion is possible without main entry or uniform headings because there is no rule for choice and form of the main headings in the current Korean Cataloging Rules. In this article we reviewed the role of identifiers and role indicators for FRBRizing. Also, we analyzed the characteristics of the Korean cataloging environment, focusing on the bibliographic records and authority records based on the current cataloging rules. As a result, we suggested the methodology for FRBRizing Korean bibliographic records by the combination of identifiers and role indicators. Although there is not much information about global identifiers or relator codes in bibliographic records based on the KORMARC at present, the FRBRizing method using identifiers and role indicators would be more effective for the global and networked information environment than the method using main entry or uniform headings.