Format Variation Working Group

During the revision of Rule 0.24, proposals were made to deal more effectively with the complexities of preparing bibliographic records that intelligibly describe work expressions and the variations among their manifestations. In 2001 the Joint Steering Committee charged an international Working Group to develop an experiment to test the practicalities associated with the creation of bibliographic records for expressions. The Group presented its first interim report in October 2001, and progress with this work was discussed at each subsequent JSC meeting. At the April 2004 meeting, the JSC thanked the FVWG for their work and discharged the Group. The JSC charged the Editor with continuing the work of the FVWG on GMDs and chapter 25.

• FVWG Terms of reference (Feb. 2001)
• FVWG Terms of reference (Nov. 2001)
• FVWG Additional term of reference (Oct. 2002)
• FVWG Membership
• FVWG First Interim Report (Oct. 2001) — PDF version
• MARBI Discussion Paper 2002-DP08: Dealing with FRBR Expressions in MARC 21
• FVWG Third Interim Report (Aug. 2002) — PDF version
• FVWG Minutes of the London Meeting (Sept. 2002) — PDF version
• FVWG Fourth Interim Report (Apr. 2003) — PDF version
• Letter to discharge the FVWG (June 2004) — PDF version

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