FRBR and Continuing

Resources

Naomi K. Young

SWF

LN. 31

August 2006

naomi@uflib.ufl.edu

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* How well

does

FRBR apply

to serials?

* What are the significant difficulties?

* How do the FRBR

user tasks

relate to

serials?
* Are there any FRBR-like applications in
process?
* How do forthcoming changes in the ISSN
standard support FRBR?

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Does FRBR Apply to j::
Continuing Resources?

* Yes
* No
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The Essential Question

* What is a serial work?

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What Is This Serial? "

Are You Sure?

The Atlantic Monthly,
77 North Washington
02114.

Phone 617 854-7700 1

Street,

Fax 617

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Boston, MA

854-7876

The Opposite Case:

Title: New Oxford review.
ir(s): American Church Union.
ition: [Oakland, Calif. : American Church Union,
Year: 1977-

Monthly (except combined July/Aug.), <2004->;
Aug.), 1977-1979
Vol. 44, no. 2 (Feb. 1977)-; v. :; ill.;; 27-28 cm.
English
ISSN: 0149-4244; LCCN: 87-642851 ; sc 78-279

Former: Monthly (except combined Jan./Feb. and July/Aug.), 1979- Monthly (except July and

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The Opposite Case: :

The New Oxford Review underwent a "religious
conversion"; it was founded as an Anglo-
Catholic magazine, but is now a conservative
Catholic magazine.

Is it the same work?

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Serials: They're all about :::
relationships!

* The complex system of links in MARC was
created to show horizontal and vertical
relationships between serials
* See Riva (also Tillett's letter and Riva's
response, in your bibliographies) for an
expansion of this idea
* Some serialists feel that the work done in this
area has never been fully implemented, is
marginalized and unappreciated

It's MULVER, it's FRBR,

It's "Super

-Record"!

http://www.lib.unc.edu/cat/mfh/serials approach
h frbr.pdf

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Schematic of the Super-

Record

Computers & Chemistry
v. 1-26 (1976-2002)

Computational Biology & Chemistry

v.27 (2003)-

PRINT

ONLINE

MICROFICHE

MICROFILM

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FRBR User Tasks :

* Find

* Identify

* Select

* Obtain

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CONSER Access-Level Record "

http://www.loc.qov/acq/conser/alrFinalReport.html
A caalogng sandad exlicily bsed n th

A cataloging standard explicitly based on the
FRBR user tasks

Every record element was judged to have utility

in assisting

in a FRBR user task

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CONSER Access-Level Record

Let's take a look at that:

http://www.loc.gov/acqlconser/pdflCoreDataSet
&Exsv2-2rev.pdf

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CONSER Access-Level Record

http://www.loc.qov/acq/conser/alrFinalReport.html

Not only that,

but it saved 20-25% in cataloging

time in the pilot study

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ISSN and FRBR

* A new ISSN standard has been drafted:

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/iso/tc46sc9/do

cs/sc9n442rev.

pdf

This standard will support format-independent,
or work-level, identification of continuing

resources

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ISSN and FRBR

ISSN-L: Not a new identifier, new function for
the ISSN
Created based on the first assigned ISSN
Usable for link resolvers and other format-neutral
records
Will be retrospectively assigned to older
resources
NOT ALWAYS EQUIVALENT TO PRINT ISSN

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RDA and FRBR

Will we have to change the
cataloging rules to apply these
principles?

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FRBR and RDA *

* FRBR terminology is used throughout RDA,
although at this draft stage, there are some
difficulties to be reconciled

* Extensive commentary is being made by
serials catalogers to the RDA draft to
harmonize the rules and the new standard

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Any Questions? Any jjs:
Answers? :

This presentation will be available tomorrow
from

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/catmet/sercat/index.htm

in .ppt or .html format

Thank you!