Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, machine-readable version, FRBR Object-Oriented. The FRBRoo is a formal ontology intended to capture and represent the underlying semantics of bibliographic information and to facilitate the integration, mediation, and interchange of bibliographic and museum information.
The Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, due to be released this coming summer, has included since May 2007 a parallel effort to build Semantic Web enabled vocabularies. This article describes that effort and the decisions made to express the vocabularies for use within the library community and in addition as a bridge to the future of library data outside the current MARC-based systems. The authors also touch on the registration activities that have made the vocabularies usable independently of the RDA textual guidance. Designed for both human and machine users, the registered vocabularies describe the relationships between FRBR, the RDA classes and properties and the extensive value vocabularies developed for use within RDA.
I. on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, (February 2009)Abschlussbericht der IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
This document was originally published as Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records in English by The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) The Hague, Netherlands..