期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science
出版年度：2007
卷号：33
期号：6
出版社：American Society for Information Science and Technology
摘要：Functional requirements for bibliographic records
(FRBR) is a complex conceptual model that is not
easy for everyone to understand. In this paper FRBR’s
status as a model is examined in detail – to explicate more
fully what it is, what it is not and what it attempts to do.
The focus of the discussion throughout this paper is the
Group 1 entities: work, expression, manifestation and
item. Several strategies are presented to clarify the more
difficult abstract entities in FRBR, which are work and
expression. Because FRBR is the most recent of a series
of conceptual models used in library cataloging, models
used prior to FRBR are described and compared to FRBR.
