Abstract:

This paper adopts methods of sample survey and case study to examine the characteristics of classical music recordings and explore the FRBRization description of classical music recordings. Our results show that the musical composition, the musical performance and the carrier of music recordings, which are the products of different production stages of classical music recording resources, are showing the complex relationships among them. The conversion of MARC records to FRBR records is the main method of the approach which was proved theoretically and practically possible. Moreover, Constructing “FRBRized” metadata standard and domain ontology are also approaches that reward to be explored.

Key words: Classical music recordings, 　Information description, 　FRBR, 　Metadata standard, 　Domain ontology