BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORDS (FRBR) Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

This paper describes work applying the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model to music, as the basis for implementing a fully FRBR-compliant music digital library system. A detailed analysis of the FRBR and Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) entities and attributes is presented. The paper closes with a discussion of the ways in which FRBR is gaining adoption outside of the library environment in which it was born. This work benefits the MIR community by demonstrating a model that can be used in MIR systems for the storage of descriptive information in support of metadata-based searching, and by positioning the Variations system to be a source of robust descriptive information for use by third-party MIR systems