Greta wrote... Scenario 3.
Jane creates additional work, expression, and manifestation record for the screenplay. WOuld this happen only if the screenplay is published separately from the film? Or are you considering the film to be "based on" the screenplay the same way the screenplay is based on a book? (so logically one would assume a screenplay to be a prexisting work and always need a work record?) I'm not sure one would routinely want to do this. In this case is Jane creating the work, expression, and manifestation records for the online version? So she's decided to catalog that too? Or am i misunderstanding that? ----------------------------- Diane wrote... It seems to me that the decision to catalog the screenplay is one that could be made, particularly if it's published separately, but I certainly didn't mean to imply that this should always be so. In a world where we're making those decisions based on programmatic criteria rather than on an automatic basis, these kinds of decisions will almost never apply across the board. Jane is clearly motivated here by the fact that this is a local production that her institution wants to make available at a detailed level. -------------------------------- It makes sense to me that the screenplay is an intermediate step between the short story and the movie. There are probably other intermediate steps (proposals, storyboards, other things I don't know about) that are less likely to end up in libraries. The thing that I wonder about in this scenario (and perhaps here I am too influenced by our current universe of distributed, stand-alone catalogs) is how can we be sure to always keep the strong link between the short story and the movie (which I think we need)? Are we going to end up with something like what happens with serial records now sometimes where if you have a gap in coverage, you miss a key link in the chain in your catalog? Would it make sense that some links are important enough to always be made explicitly even if there are potential intermediate links. In the scenario presented it seems redundant to link the movie and the short story directly, but would the importance of the link in some cases outweigh the redundancy? What would someone do in a catalog with work records set up this way if they only owned the movie and the short story? Would there be a way to usefully display the script record even if a library didn't own it. Would it need to be imported in the catalog, but somehow automatically suppressed from display so users would skip this step? Would there be different systems of links in different cataloging universes and how would we sync them? I seem to have more questions than answers... Kelley McGrath
