Hi Savitra --<br><br>Please detail which kind of FRBR you intend to pursue: weak (i.e. related works), something stronger or &quot;complete&quot;.  From what I understand, the level of detail needed for total FRBR would challange the representational capacity of *any* ILS in existence.   <br>
<br>There was a lot of talk about FRBR at the recent code4lib convention.  The last diagram I saw had four levels to a &quot;strong&quot; implementation: Work, Expression, Manifestation and Item.  And then it got crazy for what &quot;complete&quot; would look like.  The (large) PDF from this year&#39;s talk on this issue, &quot;What we talk about when we talk about FRBR&quot; is here:<a href="goog_1236968080767"><br>
</a><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><cite><a href="http://www.code4lib.org/files/frbr_code4lib09.pdf">www.code4lib.org/files/frbr_code4lib09.pdf</a><br></cite></div><cite></cite><br>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:<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://www.code4lib.org/files/freebase.pdf"><cite>www.<b>code4lib</b>.org/files/<b>freebase</b>.pdf</cite></a></div><br>I&#39;ll leave the ornate highly-differentiated data modeling to academics (or external sources) for now.  <br>
<br>--Joe<br><cite></cite><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/16 savitra sirohi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:savitra.sirohi@osslabs.biz">savitra.sirohi@osslabs.biz</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Folks, <br><br>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.  <br><br><a href="http://listes.koha-fr.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2005-October/005536.html" target="_blank">http://listes.koha-fr.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2005-October/005536.html</a><br>

<a href="http://library-matters.blogspot.com/2008/12/ranganathans-5-laws-and-frbr.html" target="_blank">http://library-matters.blogspot.com/2008/12/ranganathans-5-laws-and-frbr.html</a><br><br>I am aware that Koha can use webservices like xISBN. <br>

<br>Is anybody working on FRBR? <br><br>I will appreciate input from users and developers on how to move forward on this.<br><br>Thanks,<br><font color="#888888">Savitra Sirohi<br>MD, Nucsoft OSS Labs<br><a href="http://www.osslabs.biz" target="_blank">http://www.osslabs.biz</a></font><br>
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