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From: Patrick Le Boeuf [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 12 August 2004 17:52
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Subject: Fwd: ISBD-FRBR Mapping Now Available on IFLA Web site
The ISBD Review Group and the FRBR Review Group are pleased to announce
publication of "Mapping ISBD Elements to FRBR Entity Attributes and
Relationships" (July 28, 2004), available at:
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/ISBD-FRBR-mappingFinal.pdf
Background
Among IFLA's most important achievements in the area of bibliographic
control has been the articulation of widely implemented practices set out in
the series of the International Standard Bibliographic Descriptions
(ISBDs) and of the respected model developed on the basis of the ISBDs,
GARE, and GSARE in the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
(FRBR). It is critically important to the credibility of IFLA's work in
these areas that the ISBDs and FRBR are inter-related and mutually
supportive in order to assure users of consistency between them. As a
result, the ISBD Review Group has been assessing the feasibility of aligning
the terminology used in the texts of the ISBDs with that used in FRBR.
However, the group has encountered difficulties in trying to achieve that
alignment, owing in large part to the fact that the terms used in FRBR were
defined in the context of an entity-relationship model conceived at a higher
level of abstraction than the specifications for the ISBDs. While the
entities defined in the FRBR model are clearly related to the elements
forming an ISBD description, they are not necessarily congruent in all
respects and the relationships are too complex to be conveyed through a
simple substitution of terminology.
Purpose and scope
As a result, the IFLA's ISBD Review Group and its FRBR Review Group
concluded that an alternative approach to clarifying the relationship
between the ISBDs and the FRBR model should be pursued in the form of
developing a table to detail the relationship of each of the elements
specified in the ISBDs to its corresponding entity attribute or relationship
as defined in the FRBR model. Such a table, it was felt, would satisfy the
need to make clear that the ISBDs and FRBR themselves enjoy a harmonious
relationship. In addition, it would serve to complement the mapping from
FRBR to the ISBDs (and other standards) presented in Appendix A of the FRBR
Final Report. The mapping would also allow both Review Groups to ensure
that there is no element in the ISBDs that is not represented in FRBR and to
consider initiation of changes needed to achieve greater consistency between
them.
Project
Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB) and the British Library (BL) generously
provided funding to support this initiative. They are partnering in this
regard to support the strategic goals of the IFLA-CDNL Alliance for
Bibliographic Standards (ICABS). DDB is responsible for ICABS activities in
the area of ISBD maintenance and development, while BL is assigned
responsibility for FRBR and FRANAR maintenance and development. They
contracted with Mr. Tom Delsey, formerly of the National Library of Canada,
a principal author of FRBR, and contributor to many of the ISBDs, who
performed the work needed for the project.
Comments
Please send any comments you may have regarding the "Mapping" to John Byrum,
chair, ISBD Review Group, at: [log in to unmask] and/or to Patrick Le Boeuf,
chair FRBR Review Group at [log in to unmask]
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