| Abstrakt: |
Reports on a study of international bibliography standards conducted by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to delineate the functions that are performed by the bibliographic record with respect to various media, applications, and user needs. Employs the entity relationship analysis technique to examine three groups of entities that are the key objects of interest to users of bibliographic records. The primary group contains four entities: work, expression, manifestation, and item. The second group includes entities responsible for the intellectual or artistic content, production, or ownership of entities in the first group. The third group includes entities that represent concepts, objects, events, and places. Identifies the attributes associated with each entity and the relationships that are most important to users. Maps the attributes and relationships to the functional requirements for bibliographic records that were defined in terms of four user tasks: to find, identify, select, and obtain. Based on the entity analysis, recommends basic requirements for national bibliographic records. Compares these recommendations with two standards (AACR and Dublin Core) to place them into pragmatic context. Points out that results of the study are being used in the review of the complete set of ISBDs as the initial benchmark in determining data elements for each format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
