Diane I. Hillmann wrote:
I'd like to point those of you interested in the more technical side of
discussions on RDA and FRBR to a conversation going on in the public
Linked Library Data discussion list, starting here with a message from
Karen Coyle:
Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
snip
It also goes well with the
paradigm of all known retrieval systems, based as it is on the idea of
the result set, resulting from a query that uses attributes of various
kinds, and all of them can be viewed as attributes of items. Certain
combinations of attributes
Weinheimer Jim wrote:
I don't know if I agree that the identification of the work has to be
done somewhere. Perhaps in some formats (I am thinking primarily of
music), it is more important than others,
For classical music, it is indispensable. Apart from this, I think, one
must certainly
Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
snip
For classical music, it is indispensable. Apart from this, I think, one
must certainly retain it for prolific authors, difficult though they are
to define.
LibraryThing, from the outset, had no such notion. Later, however,
they realized that some kind of grouping was
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
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Bernhard said:
,,, the idea of the result set
In the past few months databases I search, e.g.: the LC online
catalogue, TLC's ITS, Shaw Cable's Movie Central title search, seem to
have switched to keyword, resulting in large result sets of irrelevant
items which must be looked through for the
Jim said:
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.
Picture a work/expression/manifestation record for each paper, and you
have 180
I've written about the set-theoretic view too, also crediting Svenonious:
http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/frbr-considered-as-set-relationships/
(that one is short and sweet and recommend it)
and
Jonathan- I need to correct you on one point below: I never suggested
that one doesn't need records for WEMs; in fact, my intent in this
post was to posit an environment where result sets could be electively
reified into explicit records defined by the query, which in turn
could have explicit
J. McRee Elrod wrote:
snip
Jim said:
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.
Picture a work/expression/manifestation record for
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote:
Won't FRBR result in even more unwanted item records being displayed?
Will one be able to turn of FRBR display in OPACs? I don't *need* to
see the record for the Danish original of the murder mystery I want to
read!
How would the OPAC know to display only
How would the OPAC know to display only English-language books if you don't
tell it beforehand, whether FRBR catalog or otherwise?
If the search one initiated were on title spelled in English or on the title
(spelled in English) in a keyword search? Perhaps the title in English as a
keyword
On the point about reinventing--it's worth noting that Classical Archives
succeeds by being more rigorous, more uniform, and more extensive in its use
of what librarians would call uniform title data--form terms,
instrumentation, etc.--than librarians are. So maybe it doesn't matter
whether the
All,
Apologies for cross-posting.
I have just made another podcast of Cataloging Matters, which is part 2 of my
personal journey with FRBR. It is available on my blog at:
http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/2010/09/cataloging-matters-podcast-no-4.html,
along with the transcript.
Please
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