This may find your interest, Martin
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Student paper on FRBR List-Post: [email protected] Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 10:09:34 +0200 From: William Denton <[email protected]> To: [email protected] I'm a student at the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto, and in the term just finished I took a course on the theory of classification and knowledge organization with Prof. Clare Beghtol. We didn't actually discuss FRBR in class, but I was quite intrigued with what little I'd read about it, so I did my final paper on it. I looked at Panizzi, Cutter, Lubetzky, and Ranganathan, how a FRBR catalogue would embody their core principles, and a bit about what current work was being done on it. I really enjoyed reading articles about it, and the specification too, though I admit I skipped the tables at the back. I cited M. Le Boeuf's "FRBR and Further" and some OCLC articles, including the new one from Bennett, Lavoie, and O'Neill that was recently mentioned. The list archives and the FRBR bibliography were a great help in finding sources. Reading the late Seymour Lubetzky's articles was also very interesting. Before I heard about FRBR, I hadn't come across the idea of a work as an abstract entity, and Lubetzky and the FRBR spec lay out what could make a really useful catalogue, much better than I've ever used. I hope to see one in action soon. Bill -- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Martin Doerr | Vox:+30(2810)391625 | Principle Researcher | Fax:+30(2810)391638 | Project Leader SIS | Email: [email protected] | | Information Systems Laboratory | Institute of Computer Science | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) | | Vassilika Vouton,P.O.Box1385,GR71110 Heraklion,Crete,Greece | | Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl | --------------------------------------------------------------
