--- On Dec 5, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: --- > ... we are indeed going to be operating in an environment > where different communities and providers and localities > make different decisions about what is or isn't part of > the same expression, or work.
And the complexity would seem to multiply dramatically when we consider different communities' needs for establishing relationships between works and (FRBR group 3) concepts. It strikes me that one way to address this situation might be to focus not only on the nature of the relationships between (FRBR) entities, but also on who makes (and hence values) particular relationships. This is partly about credibility (e.g., I trust when LC establishes a relationship between a work and its creator), but it's also about the needs (and ongoing discourse) of particular communities. Being able to differentiate, say, two work-concept relationships (or two work-expression relationships) based on who established the link is likely to have an important value proposition for a user. Particularly if said user is ensconced in one community and not the other. David David M Pimentel Doctoral student : Information science & technology Syracuse University School of Information Studies
