On the discrimination of Huck Finns: a short presentation on FRBR

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On the discrimination of Huck Finnsa short
presentationon FRBR

• Lorcan Dempsey
• This is a derivative work see closing slide for
  credits!
• Reading 2.0
• San Francisco
• 16 March 2006

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Overview
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• What is a book anyway?

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• A book exists at different levels of interest.
• FRBR Functional Requirements of Bibliographic
  Records models these levels of interest.

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Group 1 entities
Huck Finn
Work
A distinct intellectual or artistic creation
Un-abridged French spoken book English
language book A critical edition.
Is realized through
The intellectual or artistic realization of a work
Expression
The physical embodiment of an expression
The 1954 Penguin edtn!
A single exemplar of a manifestation
This thing in my hand!
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• FRBR is fuzzy

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OCLC FRBR work set algorithm used to cluster
related records
Spoken word
Illustrated edition
Spanish edition
Abridged edition
Adaptation
e¹
e²
e³
e4
e¹
Expressions
Work¹
Work²
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• Some numbers based on WorldCat, the worlds most
  complete bibliographic database

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Worldcat
Print books
Total
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Works In WorldCat
Works with between 2 and 5 manifestations 12
Works with gt 5 manifestations 1
Works with gt 5 manifestations 17 of total
holdings
Works with 1 manifestation 87
Works with between 2 and 5 manifestations 40 of
total holdings
Works with 1 manifestation 43 of total holdings
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• Print Book Works
• In
• WorldCat
• Works that contain at least
• 1 print book manifestation

Works with between 2 and 5 manifestations 13
Works with gt 5 manifestations 1
Works with gt 5 manifestations 17 of total
holdings
Works with 1 manifestation 86
Works with between 2 and 5 manifestations 39 of
total holdings
Works with 1 manifestation 44 of total holdings
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Top 10 fiction works based on number of editions
(manifestations)

• Don Quixote / Cervantes
• Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe
• Alices Adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll
• Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain
• Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens
• Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens
• Uncle Toms Cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe
• David Copperfield / Charles Dickens

Classics?
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Top 10 fiction works based on number of library
holdings

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain (5)
• Don Quixote / Cervantes (1)
• Alices Adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll
  (3)
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain (6)
• Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe (2)
• Moby Dick / Herman Melville
• Little Women / Louisa May Alcott
• Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens (7)
• Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte
• Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen

Popularity?
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Top works in WC by holdings
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• What did we do?

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Focus on books and music so far
Minimize manual intervention

• Mobilize existing catalog data
• FRBR work-set algorithm
• FictionFinder fiction in worldcat
• xISBN a web service, given an ISBN gives you all
  ISBNs in a work set
• Rolling out in production services

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• Find out more

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Some other implementation examples

• Music Australia
• http//www.musicaustralia.org/
• LC FRBR Display Tool
• http//www.loc.gov/marc/marc-functional-analysis/t
  ool.html
• VisualCat (Denmark)
• http//www.portia.dk/pubs/VisualCat/Present/Visual
  CatOverview20050607.pdf
• VTLS
• http//www.vtls.com/Corporate/FRBR.shtml

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Check out

• Diane Vizine-GoetzFictionFinder Don Quixote to
  Graphic Novels (PPT1.4MB/24slides)WebWise 2006,
  17 February 2006, Los Angeles,California (USA)
• Eric ChildressWhat's FRBR? (PowerPoint1.1MB/43
  slides)Central Ohio Chapter, American Society of
  Information Science Technology, 21 July 2005,
  Columbus, Ohio (USA)
• Brian Lavoie and Roger C. Schonfeld (Ithaka)A
  Systemwide View of Library Collections
  (PowerPoint300K/35slides)CNI Spring 2005 Task
  Force Meeting, 4-5 April 2005, Washington, DC
  (USA)
• Thom Hickey FRBR Algorithms and Applications
  (PowerPoint1.17MB/40slides)California Library
  Association pre-conference Institute, 12 November
  2004, San Jose, California (USA)
• Edward T. O'NeillFunctional Requirements for
  Bibliographic Records OCLC's Experience
  Identifying and Using Works (PowerPoint26MB/35
  slides)FRBR Workshop, 89 July 2004, Frankfurt
  (Germany)

Links active in slide show mode
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OCLC Research and FRBR

• OCLC FRBR Projects page http//www.oclc.org/resear
  ch/projects/frbr
• FRBR work-set algorithmhttp//www.oclc.org/resear
  ch/projects/frbr/algorithm.htm
• Top 1000 titles http//www.oclc.org/research/top1
  000
• xISBN http//www.oclc.org/research/researchworks/
  xisbn/
• Fiction Finder http//fictionfinder.oclc.org/
• Curiouser http//www.oclc.org/research/projects/c
  uriouser

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Some FRBR resources

• IFLA FRBR Review Group
• http//www.ifla.org/VII/s13/wgfrbr/wgfrbr.htm
• Functional requirements for bibliographic records
  final report / IFLA Study Group on the
  Functional Requirements for Bibliographic
  Records. Münich K.G. Saur, 1998. ISBN
  3-598-11382-X
• http//www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.htm
• FRBR Bibliography http//www.ifla.org/VII/s13/wgf
  rbr/bibliography.htm
• FRBR in 21st century catalogues (Workshop held at
  OCLC)
• http//www.oclc.org/research/events/frbr-workshop
  
• Statement of International Cataloguing Principles
• http//www.ddb.de/news/pdf/statement_draft.pdf
• FRBR Blog http//www.frbr.org/

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Credits

• Brian Lavoie ran the WorldCat numbers for me.
• Diane Vizine-Goetz and her colleagues developed
  FictionFinder and she pulled the titles for slide
  13. Slides 18 and 19 are based on FictionFinder
  counts.
• I have drawn on the presentations by my
  colleagues Diane Vizine-Goetz, Thom Hickey, Eric
  Childress, Ed ONeill listed above which
  collectively provide a very nice overview of FRBR
  from both theoretical and implementation
  perspectives.
• Thom and Jenny Toves developed the OCLC work-set
  algorithm.
• William Denton (www.frbr.org) kindly let me use
  the figure on slide 9.