1. Navigating Through Voyager: Should FRBR be in our Future? Jennifer Bowen University of Rochester October 2002

2. Our Dilemma: Usability + Our Vision + Voyager = ??? Usability testing: Students want a passive entry into the catalog Our Vision: provide entre into the academic discourse of a discipline Q: Does Voyager keyword relevance searching provide for our Vision?

4. Susan B. Anthony Keyword Search – The 21 top hits… 1. Biography 2. Biography 3. Biography 4. Susan B. Anthony Preservation District 5. Her Writings 6. Biography 7. Biography 8. Biography 9. Correspondence 10. Virgil Thomson opera recording 11. Biography 12 Proceedings of her Trial 13 Virgil Thomson opera recording 14 Music from the Ken Burns film 15 The Ken Burns film 16 Biography 17 Biography 18 Analysis of her writings 19 Women’s Studies Newsletter 20 Her papers 21 Biography

13. Why is This Better? Collocation: materials with the same or related content are grouped together. Easier navigation through search results Precise results with simple search queries. Q: What could help us to achieve this?

14. FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records 1997 IFLA document http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.htm http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.htm Theoretical model for library catalogs Uses Entity-Relationship modeling (entities, relationships, attributes) Relates all aspects of the catalog directly to user needs/tasks.

15. FRBR User Tasks Find through searching Identify “Is this what I was looking for?” Select Which best suits the user’s needs? Obtain “How do I get this?”

16. FRBR Group 1 Entities Work Expression Manifestation Item Goethe’s “Faust” L. Filmore’s English translation of Faust As published by W. Smith, 1847 The copy owned by my library

17. Current FRBR Applications Framework for designing new systems AustLit – Australian literature database http://austlit.lib.adfa.edu.au:6160/run?skel=search1 http://austlit.lib.adfa.edu.au:6160/run?skel=search1 Cadensa – British Library Sound Archives http://cadensa.bl.uk Add FRBR-based capabilities to existing systems OCLC: redesigning WorldCat VTLS: redesigning Virtua;

18. FRBR and Voyager? Voyager can now only group search results for Works (not Expressions) and only when the searcher selects either: Name/Title Heading Search or Title Heading Search Next steps for improving Voyager: Allow work-level sorting for All search types More options for user to manipulate search results (both sorting and display)

19. FRBR and EnCompass? Some work-level grouping of search results SHOULD be possible. A prototype system: University of Bradford project “BOPAC2” – Z39.50 connections http://www.comp.brad.ac.uk/research/data base/bopac2.html http://www.comp.brad.ac.uk/research/data base/bopac2.html

20. Why Implement FRBR in Voyager or EnCompass? Simple Searches with Precise Search Results

21. Additional Information on FRBR Hickey, Thomas B., O’Neill, Edward T., and Toves, Jenny, OCLC Office of Research. “Experiments with the IFLA Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)” D-Lib Magazine 8 no. 9 (Sept. 2002) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september02/hickey/0 9hickey.html http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september02/hickey/0 9hickey.html Le Boeuf, Patrick. “FRBR and Further.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 32 no. 4 (2001): 15-52.