Building a "FRBR-Inspired" Catalog: The Perseus Digital Library Experience

Item Type Report
Author Alison Babeu
URL http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/~ababeu/PerseusFRBRExperiment.pdf
Pages 87
Date 2008-01-31
Accessed 2010-02-03
Institution Perseus Digital Library
Language en
Abstract In the fall of 2005, the Perseus Project experimented with creating a FRBRized catalog for its current online classics collection, a collection that consists of several hundred classical texts in Greek and Latin as well as reference works and scholarly commentaries regarding these works. In the last two years, with funding from the Mellon Foundation, Perseus has amassed and digitized a growing collection of classical texts (some as image books on our own servers that will eventually be made available through Fedora), and some available through the Open Content Alliance (OCA)2, and created FRBRized cataloging data for these texts. This work was done largely as an experiment to see the potential of the FRBR model for creating a specialized catalog for classics. This white paper will discuss previous and current efforts by the Perseus Project in creating a FRBRized catalog, including the cataloging workflow, lessons learned during the process and will also seek to place this work in the larger context of research regarding FRBR, cataloging, Library 2.0 and the Semantic Web, and the growing importance of the FRBR model in the face of growing million book digital libraries.
Title Building a "FRBR-Inspired" Catalog: The Perseus Digital Library Experience
archive Perseus Digital Library
Date Added 2010-02-04 09:50
Date Modified 2010-02-04 09:52

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