Modeling rare and unique documents, using FRBROO/CIDOC CRM
Résumé
Both the library and the museum communities have developed conceptual models for the information they produce about the collections they hold: FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records), and CIDOC CRM (Conceptual Reference Model). But neither proves perfectly adequate when it comes to some specific types of rare and unique materials: manuscripts, hand-press resources, annotated copies of printed books, art prints, and ephemera and clippings files. However, a combination of these two models, named FRBROO, solves the problem. The paper examines in detail how each of these types of resources is modeled according to FRBROO.