Paradigma: FRBR and Digital Documents
Ketil Albertsen, Carol van Nuys · Cataloging & Classification Quarterly · 2005
SUMMARY This paper describes the Paradigma Project at the National Library of Norway and its work to ensure the legal deposit of all types of digital documents. The Paradigma project plans to implement extensions to IFLA's FRBR model for handling composite Group 1 entities at all abstraction levels. A new taxonomy is introduced: this is done by forming various relationships into component aggregates, and grouping these aggregates into various classes. This serves two main purposes: new applications may be introduced without requiring modifications to the model, and automated mechanisms may be designed to handle each class in a common way, largely unaffected by the details of the relationship semantics.