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sylvarSomething I've just learned about: FRBR (Functional Requirements for
Bibliographic Records).
It sounds scary, but FRBR is really just a way of recognizing that, say, my library's copy of the full vocal and orchestral score for Handel's Messiah is related to your library's two copies (tape and CD) of the Decca recording of Christopher Hogwood conducting Handel's Messiah.
From what I've read in one excellent description of FRBR, it doesn't seem to be intended to describe the relationship between Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness and the film adaptation Apocalypse Now, which is set in another time and place. Perhaps that's best left apart from what FRBR does -- it might be a mistake to wish for FRBR to describe both of these concepts.
Bibliographic Records).
It sounds scary, but FRBR is really just a way of recognizing that, say, my library's copy of the full vocal and orchestral score for Handel's Messiah is related to your library's two copies (tape and CD) of the Decca recording of Christopher Hogwood conducting Handel's Messiah.
From what I've read in one excellent description of FRBR, it doesn't seem to be intended to describe the relationship between Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness and the film adaptation Apocalypse Now, which is set in another time and place. Perhaps that's best left apart from what FRBR does -- it might be a mistake to wish for FRBR to describe both of these concepts.
