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Subject: Meeting Announcement, Catl. & Class. Research
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:13:26 -0500
From: Jimmie Lundgren <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Maps-L Listserve' <[log in to unmask]>

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The ALCTS Cataloging & Classification Section Research Discussion Group
would like to invite you to participate in its Midwinter meeting Saturday
January 15, 2005 from 11:30 AM-12:30 PM in the Sheraton, Back Bay D. We are
happy to welcome Pat Riva of McGill University who will be sharing some of
her ideas on FRBR.

"Bibliographic relationships have taken on even greater importance in the
context of ongoing efforts to integrate concepts from the Functional
Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) into our cataloguing codes
and database structures. In MARC 21, the linking entry fields (tags
760-787) are a major mechanism for expressing relationships between
bibliographic records, particularly for serials. How can this
information best be put to use in library OPACs? Do the fields available
in MARC 21 adequately cover all the important bibliographic
relationships?

One way to step back and look at these issues is the approach taken by
this project. The MARC 21 linking fields were first mapped to the
relationship categories identified in FRBR itself, and also to the
classes proposed by Barbara Tillett in her taxonomy of bibliographic
relationships devised for her dissertation in 1987, and extended by
Richard Smiraglia in his 1992 dissertation. Then, in the reverse
exercise, the FRBR relationship category tables were mapped to the MARC
21 linking fields. Major findings include potential areas for changes
and additions to MARC 21 and an understanding of the differing levels of
granularity provided in MARC 21, FRBR and the Tillett/Smiraglia
taxonomies." --Pat

After the presentation and a discussion with Pat about it, we hope to have a
few minutes to hear your thoughts on the following:
(1) What are your dreams for better catalogs or indexes?
(2) How can you express these dreams in FRBR language?

Jimmie Lundgren, ALCTS CCS Research Discussion Gp. Chair 2004/2005
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