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5) FRBR's strength is defining the relationships between things, Dublin Core's strength is how to describe the things. Douglas Campbell National Library of New Zealand >>> stuart yeates <[log in to unmask]> 15/04/10 10:11 >>> Karen Coyle wrote: > Quoting John Moss <[log in to unmask]>: > >> I trying to wrap my head around the differences between Dublin Core >> and FRBR. Is one based upon the other? If so, which came first? > > 1) totally unrelated, apples and grommets > 2) DC started up first; FRBR was issued in 1998, but didn't get much > attention for the first 10 years of its life. DC was getting > increasing use during that time. 3) DC takes a 'start simple' approach whereas FRBR attempts to encompass every bibliographic need 4) DC can be readily applied to almost any media/data; FRBR really only fits human-generated things that have been 'published' in some sense. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository