Description of resources in digital environments: the FRBRoo model

Abstract

It addresses the development of standards and metadata formats for the provision of information contents in digital media in an interoperable way, whose search requirements can be mediated by both humans and operated by software agents. Analyzes the semantic web impacts on organizational processes and access to information and perspectives brought by the FRBR conceptual model for the field of descriptive cataloging and shows the methodological developments in relation to the development of ontologies and vocabularies FRBR. Highlights the progress of the FRBR model toward the object-oriented approach through studies about the FRBRoo, new paradigm thought from the Principles of Cataloging, whose main concern has been to develop rules more intuitive that allow users to seek information independently. Brings, as result of reflections, that the representation and description of bibliographic data needs to be rethought from conceptual models of type ER (Entity-Relationship) in order to achieve good levels of interoperability both from the technical point of view, share and exchange of data, such as semantic, from the identification of relationships between data sets available in the system itself or outside. It shows that the representation of metadata built on a flexible structure and their descriptions in RDF language optimize the relationships between bibliographic entities and enhances the use and reuse of information between users. We emphasize that the use of metadata structure standards when associated the description using identifiers allow software agents identify  the essential entities to recover the different resources available on the web from interconnecting logics and intuitive; declarations whose syntax and semantics are similar to the language and the user thought.