Navigating Through Voyager: Should FRBR be in our Future

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Navigating Through Voyager Should FRBR be in
our Future?

• Jennifer Bowen
• University of Rochester
• October 2002

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Our Dilemma Usability Our Vision Voyager
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• Usability testing Students want a passive entry
  into the catalog
• Our Vision provide entre into the academic
  discourse of a discipline
• Q Does Voyager keyword relevance
  searching provide for our Vision?

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Susan B. Anthony Keyword Search The 21 top
hits

• Biography
• Biography
• Biography
• Susan B. Anthony Preservation District
• Her Writings
• Biography
• Biography
• Biography
• Correspondence
• Virgil Thomson opera recording
• Biography

• Proceedings of her Trial
• Virgil Thomson opera recording
• Music from the Ken Burns film
• The Ken Burns film
• Biography
• Biography
• Analysis of her writings
• Womens Studies Newsletter
• Her papers
• Biography

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Why is This Better?

• Collocation materials with the same or related
  content are grouped together.
• Easier navigation through search results
• Precise results with simple search queries.
• Q What could help us to achieve this?

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FRBR Functional Requirements for Bibliographic
Records

• 1997 IFLA document http//www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frb
  r/frbr.htm
• Theoretical model for library catalogs
• Uses Entity-Relationship modeling
• (entities, relationships, attributes)
• Relates all aspects of the catalog directly to
  user needs/tasks.

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FRBR User Tasks

• Find
• through searching
• Identify
• Is this what I was looking for?
• Select
• Which best suits the users needs?
• Obtain
• How do I get this?

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FRBR Group 1 Entities

• Work
• Expression
• Manifestation
• Item

• Goethes Faust
• L. Filmores English translation of Faust
• As published by W. Smith, 1847
• The copy owned by my library

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Current FRBR Applications

• Framework for designing new systems
• AustLit Australian literature database
  http//austlit.lib.adfa.edu.au6160/run?skelsearc
  h1
• Cadensa British Library Sound Archives
• http//cadensa.bl.uk
• Add FRBR-based capabilities to existing systems
• OCLC redesigning WorldCat
• VTLS redesigning Virtua

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FRBR and Voyager?

• Voyager can now only group search results for
  Works (not Expressions) and only when the
  searcher selects either
• Name/Title Heading Search or
• Title Heading Search
• Next steps for improving Voyager
• Allow work-level sorting for All search types
• More options for user to manipulate search
  results (both sorting and display)

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FRBR and EnCompass?

• Some work-level grouping of search results SHOULD
  be possible.
• A prototype system
• University of Bradford project BOPAC2 Z39.50
  connections http//www.comp.brad.ac.uk/research/d
  atabase/bopac2.html

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Why Implement FRBR in Voyager or EnCompass?

• Simple Searches
• with Precise Search Results

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Additional Information on FRBR

• Hickey, Thomas B., ONeill, Edward T., and Toves,
  Jenny, OCLC Office of Research.  Experiments
  with the IFLA Functional Requirements for
  Bibliographic Records (FRBR) D-Lib Magazine 8
  no. 9 (Sept. 2002) http//www.dlib.org/dlib/septe
  mber02/hickey/09hickey.html
• Le Boeuf, Patrick. FRBR and Further.
  Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 32 no. 4
  (2001) 15-52.