Wolfram Seidler

FRBR—The MAB2 Perspective

FRBRizing legacy data has been a subject to research since the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model was published in 1998. Studies were mainly conducted for MARC 21, but in Austria, Maschinelles Austauschformat für Bibliotheken (MAB2), a data format based on the rules for descriptive cataloging in academic libraries, mainly in Germany and Austria, is still in use. The implementation of Primo, an Ex Libris software, made research in FRBRizing MAB2 records necessary as Primo offers the possibility of building FRBR-groups by clustering different manifestations of a work. The first steps of FRBRizing bibliographic records in MAB2 at the Vienna University Library and the challenges in this context are highlighted in this article.