Jonathan, Although it's certainly possible to build a model that works the way you describe, I don't think that's what FRBR actually does nor is it the model that most moving image catalogers and users are seeking.
The FRBR report itself uses the original Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet and two film versions as examples of three separate, but related works. I would consider remakes to be a type of derivative work. What I would like to see in FRBR work records for moving images is something similar to what you get in a record in imdb (http://www.imdb.com) or amg (http://www.allmovie.com) which describes what Martha calls the "cinematographic work." These are the characteristics that would be relevant to all expressions of that work, as well as pertinent characteristics of the original expression or manifestation. In my view, expressions for moving images should be reserved for variant versions of these cinematographic works (like a director's cut, a subtitled release, or a pan-and-scan version). These work-level characteristics are important to our users and are inadequately accessible in our current records. It is hard for me to see how we are going to realize the desired economic and access benefits in a model where directors, cinematographers, and actors are not work-level credits (unless maybe we are going to have multi-level expressions?). I do not see that by treating cinematographic works as separate works that we need to lose any access or flexibility, so long as we explicitly encode the relationships between the works, as well as the relevant characteristics of the works, expressions, and manifestations involved. It should be possible to generate a display of all the film and video adaptations of Shakespeare's works or of Romeo and Juliet and arrange them in various ways without making the film versions into expressions of the play. Kelley McGrath ------------------------- Wait, if they do a remake of the film, isn't that the same work (but a different expression)? For that matter, isn't every film version of Hamlet all part of the same work ("Hamlet"), but differnet expressions (with different actors?) To me, you are confusing work and expression. Seems to me they remake a different film version of the same _work_ not infrequently. It doesn't need to even be the exact same script to be the same _work_, does it? Jonathan
