[Koha] FRBR & Koha?

[Joe Atzberger]

Hi Savitra --

Please detail which kind of FRBR you intend to pursue: weak (i.e. related
works), something stronger or "complete".  From what I understand, the level
of detail needed for total FRBR would challange the representational
capacity of *any* ILS in existence.

There was a lot of talk about FRBR at the recent code4lib convention.  The
last diagram I saw had four levels to a "strong" implementation: Work,
Expression, Manifestation and Item.  And then it got crazy for what
"complete" would look like.  The (large) PDF from this year's talk on this
issue, "What we talk about when we talk about FRBR" is here:
<goog_1236968080767>www.code4lib.org/files/frbr_code4lib09.pdf

It seems like we would do best to implement additional related works
connectors for external data like LibraryThing, and especially FreeBase.
The PDF from the Freebase presentation is here:
www.*code4lib*.org/files/*freebase*.pdf<http://www.code4lib.org/files/freebase.pdf>

I'll leave the ornate highly-differentiated data modeling to academics (or
external sources) for now.

--Joe

2009/3/16 savitra sirohi <savitra.sirohi at osslabs.biz>

> Folks,
>
> We might be interested in developing better FRBR capabilities on Koha. This
> will help us market  Koha better here in India. I see some posts on this
> topic from a while back, nothing recent.
>
> http://listes.koha-fr.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2005-October/005536.html
>
> http://library-matters.blogspot.com/2008/12/ranganathans-5-laws-and-frbr.html
>
> I am aware that Koha can use webservices like xISBN.
>
> Is anybody working on FRBR?
>
> I will appreciate input from users and developers on how to move forward on
> this.
>
> Thanks,
> Savitra Sirohi
> MD, Nucsoft OSS Labs
> http://www.osslabs.biz
>
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