On 2/22/12 12:27 AM, James Weinheimer wrote:
Such a reaction makes perfect sense to me. It is very difficult to maintain that FRBR is a conceptual model for anyone besides librarians.
It's also interesting to see what other folks do with the FRBR concepts. There is a bibliographic data suite called "SPAR" [1] that has a module called "FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology".[2] Here are the things it defines as works, expressions, and manifestations:
Work: artistic work, biography, case for support, corrigendum, critical edition, dataset, erratum, essay, examination paper, grant application, image, instructional work, metadata, model, opinion, proposition, questionnaire, reference work, report, research paper, review, sound recording, specification, vocabulary, work collection, work package, working paper
Expression: Gantt chart, abstract, article, audio document, book, case for support document, chapter, comment, computer program, conference paper, conference poster, cover, data file, database, demo paper, dust jacket, e-mail, editorial, excerpt, expression collection, figure, grant application document, index, instruction manual, lecture notes, letter, manuscript, metadata document, movie, news item, patent application document, patent document, periodical issue, periodical volume, personal communication, presentation, project plan, proof, quotation, report document, repository, spreadsheet, supplementary information file, table, vocabulary document, vocabulary mapping document, web content, workshop paper
Manifestation:analog manifestation, digital manifestation, manifestation collection
That's quite different from the library interpretation of the meaning of those entities, I believe. But it obviously is what makes sense to this community, which is primarily interested in academic publication.
Actually, if someone has the energy to unpack this and compare it to how you think libraries would 'frbr-ize' these resource types, I'd be really interested in seeing that.
kc [1] http://purl.org/spar/ [2] http://purl.org/spar/fabio/ -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
