Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Casey A Mullin wrote: In the mean time, I'll respond to Karen and Heidrun's comments. To be clear, I'm not suggesting certain works/expressions be "flagged" as primary or secondary. What I'm referring to is the idea that certain works/expressions need not even be identified in the data. Acco

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Barbara, 1. Naming the parts - by having the relationship/link to the whole, you alleviate the necessity of having to provide a "title" for the parts that includes the title of the whole. There may continue to be a need for a default display form to name the work, but I hope we can eventually

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Bernhard Eversberg
09.01.2012 23:25, Karen Coyle: And it also seems that in your scenario, aggregates link whole/part between expressions but not between works? Is there a reason why they would not link at the work? I did a very ugly diagram of this... http://kcoyle.net/temp/frbragg.pdf If it's too ugly I can t

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
> -Original Message- > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle > Sent: January 9, 2012 5:26 PM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Repor

Re: [RDA-L] Series entry redux

2012-01-09 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Thomas said: >In series authority records, 008/12 has the values for "monographic >series" vs. "multipart item". If the series is coded for multipart >item, the headi= >ng is formulated under main entry rules for >monographs The division is not so neat. Literary series which continue indefinite

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting "Brenndorfer, Thomas" : Because there are many-to-many relationships that are horizontal as well as the many-to-many primary relationship unique to expressions and manifestations. For the case of the aggregating expression, going over it again ... An expression may be embodied in

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Thomas quoted: >"Multipart item. A monograph complete, or intended to be completed, in a fi= >nite number of separate parts. The separate parts may or may not be numbere= >d." > >"Serial. A continuing resource issued in a succession of discrete parts, us= >ually bearing numbering, that has no pred

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread J. McRee Elrod
>But the horizontal whole/part does exist. As I've said earlier, there seems to me to be a fallacy in calling the whole/part relationship horizontal, particularly for secondary parts such as a preface, a bibliography, illustrations or an index, which may be in one manifestation but not in another.

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
> -Original Message- > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle > Sent: January 9, 2012 1:42 PM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of th

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting "Brenndorfer, Thomas" : The confusion seems to arise from the unique "many-to-many" relationship of the expression to the manifestation. As soon as the "many" kicks in for multiple expressions embodied in one manifestation, the notion of the structural relationship of "parts" unf

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Casey A Mullin : (I'm ignoring the aggregate w/e here, as it's not useful to identify) Actually, we might need it. m1 (novel published with preface) Title proper: Bend sinister embodies e1 (novel in English) realizes w1 Preferred title: Bend sinister

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
>From AACR2 Glossary: "Multipart item. A monograph complete, or intended to be completed, in a finite number of separate parts. The separate parts may or may not be numbered." "Serial. A continuing resource issued in a succession of discrete parts, usually bearing numbering, that has no pre

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Thomas said: >Yet a finite resource is not a serial-- it's a multipart monograph. The same >goes for finite multi-part series -- they are treated as monographs, and get >the same main entry treatment as monographs. A multi-part series in one library might be a multi-part monograph in another.

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Casey A Mullin
"kc: Nothing devilish at all in MARC: you add a 7xx for it. It's only devilish in a FRBR-based environment. " And here's where our perspectives differ. I'm not talking about just adding an analytic for a preface. That's easy. I'm talking about treating a novel published with a preface as an ag

[RDA-L] ALA Linked Library Data Interest Group - Sunday, Jan. 22, 10:30-12

2012-01-09 Thread Corey A Harper
*** With apologies for cross-posting *** The LITA/ALCTS Linked Library Data Interest Group (LLD-IG) will be meeting from 10:30-12 on Sunday, January 22 in the Lone Star Ballroom C2 of the Sheraton Dallas. The agenada is below, and online at: http://connect.ala.org/node/165005. We're hoping for a

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
> -Original Message- > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind > Sent: January 9, 2012 11:31 AM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Repor

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Casey A Mullin : [I'm behind on this thread, which raced forth over the weekend. Still catching up...] In the mean time, I'll respond to Karen and Heidrun's comments. To be clear, > I'm not suggesting certain works/expressions be "flagged" as primary or secondary. What I'm referrin

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Jonathan Rochkind : I think you need to just create an identifier for the manifestation or expression that doesn't yet exist (if it doesn't), and make the relationship M-M to E-E. The 'extra' M or E you created doens't need to have any other metadata recorded about it -- just it

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Casey A Mullin
[I'm behind on this thread, which raced forth over the weekend. Still catching up...] In the mean time, I'll respond to Karen and Heidrun's comments. To be clear, I'm not suggesting certain works/expressions be "flagged" as primary or secondary. What I'm referring to is the idea that certain

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
> -Original Message- > From: J. McRee Elrod [mailto:m...@slc.bc.ca] > Sent: January 9, 2012 11:46 AM > To: Brenndorfer, Thomas > Cc: RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working > Group on Aggregates > > > Thomas said: > > >One of

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Thomas said: >One of the first epiphanies I had when learning to catalog was in >realizing that there are no specific rules for main entry for series The same rules should apply to both series and serials, because what is a series in one library is a serial in another. __ __ J. McRee

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
On 1/9/2012 11:23 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: The difficulty is that there appears to be a desire to create a whole/part from, say, a Manifestation to an Expression, which does not seem to be valid in the FRBR model, even though it is conceptually logical. I'm not sure it's conceptually logical

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting "Tillett, Barbara" : FRBR includes whole/part relationships for all of the Group 1 entities (see 5.3.1.1 - work level 5.3.2.1 - expression level 5.3.4.1 - manifesation level 5.3.6.1 - item level. The relationships between the group 1 entities are the *inherent relationships (i.e., is re

[RDA-L] RDA Update Forum at ALA MW

2012-01-09 Thread Abbas, June M.
Apologies for cross posting. I hope you plan to attend. The Cataloging and Metadata Management Section (CaMMS) and the RDA Conference Forums and Programs Task Force (TF) are co-sponsoring the ALA Midwinter RDA Update Forum, Sunday, January 22, 2011 1:30-3:30pm at the Dallas Convention Cente

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
> -Original Message- > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle > Sent: January 9, 2012 10:28 AM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Tillett, Barbara
FRBR includes whole/part relationships for all of the Group 1 entities (see 5.3.1.1 - work level 5.3.2.1 - expression level 5.3.4.1 - manifesation level 5.3.6.1 - item level. The relationships between the group 1 entities are the *inherent relationships (i.e., is realized through/realizes or exp

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting "Brenndorfer, Thomas" : If we want a collective entity related to individual entities, then we will make one. But in the process of doing so (from my memory of a database course), it's good to avoid unnecessary duplication and redundancy, as this effects the efficiency of systems bu

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
> -Original Message- > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Heidrun Wiesenmüller > Sent: January 9, 2012 9:43 AM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Repor

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Bernhard Eversberg : Furthermore, others have already passed us by, inventing devices that do the job we expect work records to do, and not in very complicated ways either: http://www.librarything.com/work/1386651 note their canonical title, original title, ... Librarything has do

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Thomas Brenndorfer wrote: This problem also appears in the use of 655 genre/form headings. A GSAFD genre/form heading like "Short stories" (despite the plural form) is applied to an "individual work" -- in effect, a single short story. A collection of short stories would get the 650 heading, "

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Tillett, Barbara
Heidrun - You may have seen some of my presentations about FRBR that explain this "point of view" approach to show that the theoretical, conceptual model is indeed describing what we already have as entities since the beginning of catalogs and bibliographic information (e.g., in the British Muse

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Heidrun Wiesenmüller
Bernhard Eversberg wrote: You may contemplate any number of models that go beyond this, as this thread amply testifies, but I seriously doubt any such approach will be an economic use of resources. Economy dictates that we use what we have more extensively and in better ways. Sure, it is nice t

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-09 Thread Adam L. Schiff
distinction has existed much longer, and should be observed. IMNSHO many music cataloguers continuing to code music genre headings as 650 (which we were required to do for one client) was a mistake, and will complicate flipping them to new forms. The 655 0 vs. 655 7 is distinction enough between