Ferberización de una base de datos bibliográfica

Abstract

This paper presents a software project that converts bibliographic records from a standard database to the entities of the several groups of FRBR conceptual model: works, expressions, manifestations, items, persons, institutions and subjects as well as many of the relationships between them. The software dynamically converts the original records, which correspond to manifestations and items of FRBR in a tree that begins in the work and then displays the remaining entities and relationships. In implementing this we have worked with the database of the library of the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias e la Educación of the UNLP, but because of the modularity with which it stands, the software can be implemented based on any other structure. To carry out this process, the software builds lists of authorities for works, expressions, manifestations, persons, institutions and subjects. At this stage the data used to build the entities and relationships arise exclusively from the information contained in the original database. This implies that many data can not be obtained because they were not covered in the original design, so that raises a second stage in which it collects such information in remote databases. Besides the advantages for the user to have a “ferberized” view, this works mentions the implications of such a structure for bibliometric studies