Paradigma: FRBR and Digital Documents

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 de-signed to handle each class in a common way, largely unaffected by the details of the relationship semantics. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: Website: © 2005 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.]