[Metadatalibrarians] Report released on a FRBR model for musical materials

[Jenn Riley]

The Indiana University Veriations2 and Variations3 projects use a work-based
metadata model for discovery of musical sound recordings, scanned score
images, and encoded score notation files. This model has been described as
³FRBR-like² and is mentioned in various discussions of FRBR-based systems,
but it is not technically a FRBR implementation.

As the project team investigates long-term sustainability issues for the
Variations3 software, we have begun thinking about what a truly FRBR-ized
version of the metadata model would look like, and if changing to this type
of model would make our system more sustainable and interoperable. As a
first step towards answering these questions, members of the Variations3
project team have released a report outlining the potential application of
FRBR to a system designed to deliver musical content in a library
environment. The report is available from our project news page:
<http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/variations3/updates.html>.

Comments on the report are welcome.

Jenn

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Jenn Riley
Metadata Librarian
Digital Library Program
Indiana University - Bloomington
Wells Library E170
(812) 856-5759
www.dlib.indiana.edu

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