Mr. Rice Majors, Product Manager from Innovative Interfaces Inc., was the Chair of the ALCTS FRBR Interest Group. He served as the moderator and welcomed the audiences. A total of 33 people attended the interest group discussion.
Mr. Jim Hahn, from University of Illinois, presented his research on FRBR Group 3 entity sets for search log annotation.
Mr. Vinod Chachra, President and CEO of VTLS, presented “FRBR SaaS and Reverse Trees.” The reverse tree is not defined in IFLA FRBR documents. Unlike a traditional FRBR tree starts at the Work level and goes to Expression, Manifestation, and Item levels, a reverse tree starts at the Manifestation level and goes to Expressions linked to the Manifestation and in turn Works linked to the Expressions. According to Mr. Vinod Chachra, this is particularly useful for music and for “bound with” for printed works.
There were discussions after the two presentations. The interest group participants called for more examples of using FRBR, suggested more collaborative activities with RDA, made comments on not much control on the Expression level, suggested more active ways to inform RUSA and collection development librarians on FRBR developments. It is important to let public services librarians to understand and see the values of FRBR.
Ms. Allyson Carlyle announced she would like to see more research in cataloging in year 2010.
The Interest Group elected Dr. Judy Jeng (jjeng@clarion.edu) as the next Vice-Chair of the FRBR Interest Group.