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

003210479313

claire.dupont@uclouvain.be