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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:24:16
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Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Interesting conversations about RDA and FRBR ...
Can someone please tell me how to get off of this listserv? Thank you
Jo A. Hudson
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[mailto:rd...@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Bernhard Eversberg
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 8:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Interesting conversations about RDA and FRBR ...
Weinheimer Jim wrote:
> <snip> But first of all, liberate works that are now incarcerated
> inside all sorts of "collections" or "multiparts" (whose "workness"
> is somewhat dubious). Here, the notion of the (physical) "item" is
> really not the best of concepts, in terms of usability of the
> catalog, to base a description and a record on. </snip>
>
> A terrifying possibility, but one that I agree is probably necessary,
Without it, the entire RDA reality will remain a half-hearted FRBR
incarnation. Unless, of course, we add the concept of second-class
works, and make that well understood when confronting the general
public with our glittering new WEMI catalogs.
> although libraries do not, and will not, have the resources to do it.
> I remember working on single volume conference publications that
> could take days because each one had dozens of individual papers, and
> instead of one item, the single volume became 40 or 60 or more
> records. I think the only way it could be done practically would be
> through some kind of crowdsourcing.
>
The crowd of OCLC members would be too small?
> Also in this regard, with the recent, and very positive, DMCA changes
> and the possibilities to remix, the very notion of implementing
> FRBR-type structures for these materials is staggering.
Of course, we may have to end up admitting that FRBR proper is a
pie-in-the-sky or pipedream, fine in theory but impracticable.
B.Eversberg
