The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FR-BR), an emerging model in the bibliographic domain, provide interesting possibilities in terms of cataloguing, representation and semantic enrichment of bibliographic data. However, the automated transformation of existing catalogs to fit this model is a requirement towards a wide adoption of FRBR in libraries. The cultural heritage community proposed a notable amount of FRBRization tools and projects, thus making it difficult for practitioners to compare and evaluate them. In this paper, we propose a synthetic and relevant classification of the FRBRization techniques according to specific criteria of comparison such as model expressiveness or specific enhancements.

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The transformation of legacy MARC catalogs to FRBR catalogs (FRBRization) is a complex and important challenge for libraries. Although many FRBRization tools have provided experimental validation, it is difficult to evaluate and compare these systems on a fair basis due to a lack of common datasets. This poster presents two public datasets (T42 and BIB-RCAT) intended to support the validation of the FRBRization process.