Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records: Final Report

Records (FRBR) developed an entity-relationship model as a generalized view of the bibliographic universe, intended to be independent of any cataloging code or implemen-tation. The FRBR report1 itself includes a descrip-tion of the conceptual model (the entities, relationships, and attributes or metadata as we’d call them today), a proposed national level bibliographic record for all types of materials, and user tasks associated with the bibliographic resources described in catalogs, bibliographies, and other bibliographic tools. IFLA continues to monitor the application of FRBR and promotes its use and evolution. The IFLA Cataloguing Section’s Workin