The Basis for a Record: in the light of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

Tom Delsey. The Logical Structure of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, prepared for the JSC, part 1, August 1998, PDF file available at http:// www. nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/aacr.pdf, part 2, January 1999, PDF file available at http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/ aacr2.pdf; Functional Analysis of the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Holdings Formats: Prepared for the Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress, January 4 2002. PDF file available at http://www.loc.gov/marc/marcfunctional-analysis/home. html.

Elaine Svenonius. The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization, Cambridge, Mass. 2000, p. 31.

Lynne Howarth. Content versus Carrier. In: International Conference on the Principles and Future Development of AACR, Toronto, Canada, October 23-25, 1997. PDF file available at http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/rcarrier.pdf.

AACR Joint Steering Committee, News & Announcements: Outcomes of the Meeting ... March 2000. http:// www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc0003out.html. New phrasing of 0.24: 'It is important to bring out all aspects of the item being described, including its content, its carrier, its type of publication, its bibliographic relationships, and whether it is published or unpublished. In any given area of the description, all relevant aspects should be described. As a rule of thumb, the cataloguer should follow the more specific rules applying to the item being catalogued, whenever they differ from the general rules.'

I borrow the terms 'monoform' and 'polyform' from the field of textual criticism and in particular from the work of the Swedish bibliographer Rolf Du Rietz, Den tryckta skriften: Termer och begrepp ... Uppsala, 1999.

JSC Format Variation Working Group: Interim Report, October 8, 2001, p.27. PDF file. http://www. nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/.

L'applicazione del modello FRBR ai cataloghi: problemi generali e di impiego normativo, Commissione RICA, Word file dated 2001-10-22, http://www.iccu. sbn.it/rica-frbr.doc.

German, like Scandinavian languages, has two different words which translate into 'edition'. The difference is not commented upon in RAK, but there is some indication that the most general concept is implied.

Draft for RAK2, Grundbegriffe, kindly made available to me by Monika Münnich, in January 2002.

Pending legislation, the national library of Sweden works with web harvesting, but also with agreements with producers of digital contents in order to get file deliveries together with bibliographic data directly from the producers.

JSC Format Variation Working Group: Interim Report, October 8, 2001, p.8 passim. PDF file. http:// www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/.

Version referred to dated 2002-03-25, http://www. loc.gov/marc/marc-functional-analysis/multipleversions. html.

Cf. Lynne Howarth, op.cit., p. 10: 'As computer-based technologies and computer-supported applications continue to evolve, and as electronic and other "virtual" resources proliferate, the boundaries that separate the physical formats in which information is packaged will become increasingly blurred.'

Patrick Le Boeuf. 'FRBR and Further'. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 32 ( 2001), No 4, pp. 15-52.

Created in June 1999 under the auspices of the Division of Bibliographic Control and the IFLA UBCIM Programme.

See note 7.

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, München 1998, p. 19. (UBCIM publications; N.S., Vol. 19) ISBN 3-598-11382-X.

This has been comprehensively demonstrated by Patrick Le Boeuf , see e.g. his 'The Impact of the FRBR Model on the Future Revisions of the ISBDs: a Challenge for the IFLA Section on Cataloguing', paper presented at the 67th IFLA Conference in Boston 2001, published in International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control, 31 (2002), No 1, pp. 3-6, and his article 'FRBR and Further', Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 32 (2001), No 4, pp. 15-52.

Elaine Svenonius , The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization , Cambridge, Mass., 2000, p. 34. The statement in its original context applies to operational definitions of bibliographic entities.