Quoting Stephen Hearn <[email protected]>:
The web statements would presumably be derived from a large set of records, not from an individual record. The bib record for Sturges' "Magnificent 7" if constructed the same way as the Kurosawa record would inferentially provide the data needed to create the statement establishing his connection. The logic would break down, though, when the bib record describes multiple objects. A MARC bib record describing a 3-DVD set of the three "King Kong" movies would have a hard time associating individual directors with their movies in a way that machines could process. As Adam observed, an authority record focused on a particular work or expression in a way that many bib records are not would provide a better basis for establishing these kinds of relationships.
The more I think about FRBR, the more I think that the Manifestation is the fly in the ointment. Manifestations do more than manifest an expression. They often have added bits that don't follow from the work/expression, such as bibliographies supplied by the author or publisher but not part of the main text, indexes, illustrations that are added in to a text previously published without, etc. etc. etc. So you example here of trying to make sense of a record for a 3-DVD set illustrates that well. I'm beginning to think of the manifestation as having some overlap with W/E, but not entirely --- can't come up with the word, something like "contiguous" -- with it. I suspect that's how catalogers see it, it just doesn't seem to be expressed that way in FRBR. I think a better way of saying it would be that the manifestation "manifests and often enhances" the expression.
I have a terrible feeling I'm the last one to realize this. kc -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
