On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, massoomeh Niknia wrote:
> Dear all
> I'm going to do my thesis about "FRBR Usertasks" but I have some problems:
>
> - there isn't any FRBRized system in our country
> - I'm not sure to access users' behaviour by log analysing
> Now I don't know how can I reach to end-users' behaviour and how can I mach
> or compare them with FRBR usertasks
> I'll be pleased to recieve your ideas and pointers about my thesis
The FRBR tasks hold true for any catalog, even non-bibliographic
catalogs.[1,2] FRBR is a reference model, not a fixed implementation, and
although it would be useful to have a catalog system that could track all
of the entities, attributes and relationships in FRBR, simply being able
to discuss a catalog in a non-ambiguous way so we know what the records
represent is a powerful thing.[3]
The only problem with a non-FRBR system is that you might not be able to
present a record at the correct granularity for the catalog user. (eg, if
someone's specifically looking to see if you have a copy of the Work in a
given language, or available in large print, and you only catalog at the
Work level, you can't answer their question from the catalog, they'll
have to go to the stacks.)
Well, that assumes that you consider translation to be a new Expression,
and not a new Work, as some people do[4].
As for study methodology, sorry, but that's beyond me.
-Joe
[1] Hourcle, J.A. (2008). "FRBR Applied to Scientific Data". ASIS&T
2008 Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH - October 27, 2008.
<http://vso1.nascom.nasa.gov/vso/misc/jhourcle_ASIST_2008.pdf>
[2] Hourcle, J.A. (2008). "Data Relationships: Towards a Conceptual Model
of Scientific Data Catalogs". Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet.
Suppl. Abstract IN22A-03.
<http://vso1.nascom.nasa.gov/vso/misc/AGU2008_DataRelationships.ppt>
[3] Hourcle, J.A. (2008). "Reconciling Heterogeneous Data Catalogs".
CODATA, Kyiv, Ukraine - October 7, 2008.
<http://vso1.nascom.nasa.gov/vso/misc/CODATA_2008.ppt>
[4] Soergel, D. (2007). Digital Library Content Model. First International
Workshop on Digital Libraries Foundations, In Conjunction with JCDL
2007, Vancouver, BC - June23, 2007.
Received on Tue Dec 08 2009 - 08:45:04 EST