[open-bibliography] More verbs. Electronic 'Items' (Yes, another FRBR thread)

Thu Jul 8 17:33:07 UTC 2010

Quoting Benjamin O'Steen <bosteen at gmail.com>:

> I was talking about realining or adding to the predicates when you take
> into consideration that some Expression-level predicates are arguably
> Work level relationships (or should be): eg translations and so on. For
> example, changing the range+domain of
> http://metadataregistry.org/schemaprop/show/id/1635.html
> (hasATranslation) from Expression to perhaps a union of Expression and
> Work? or simply from E -> E to W -> W?

I'm still not clear on what you are trying to do, but perhaps this helps:

... in the FRBR document "is expression of" is a predicate that  
relates an expression to a Work. Between each of the four Group 1  
entities there appears to be a single relationship:
   - is expression of (has expression)  E <-> Work
   - is manifestation of (has manifestation) M <-> E
   - is item of (has item) I <-> M

As for translations, Work is an abstract, until it is expressed, so  
only the Expression can be translated, not the Work. (That's the FRBR  
logic, I'm not necessarily defending it.)

I do think it is problematic that relationships have been specified as  
relating only between certain FRBR entities. In some cases I can see  
the logic (as in above on translations), in other cases I cannot.  
There's a lot about the implementation of FRBR that I think is far  
from settled.

Actually, it's worse than that. A predicate is a relationship between  
properties, yet the FRBR predicates have been made specific to a  
particular entity. It's not clear to me whether the predicate as  
defined is subject + predicate or predicate + object.

Note that in the publishing of RDA (which uses a lot of FRBR elements)  
we have tried to create a "general" level where properties and  
predicates are free of the FRBR entities -- in particular the Group 1  
entities -- so that communities with different interpretations of FRBR  
can continue to operate.

kc

>
> (predicate codified into RDF here:
> http://vocab.org/frbr/core.html#translation)
>
> Do we have a list of relationships where the range and domain need to be
> loosened, based on previous discussions? Will we require more
> relationships to describe the Works properly?
>
> Ben
>
>
> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 06:41 -0700, Karen Coyle wrote:
>> Verbs can be found at:
>>
>> http://vocab.org/frbr/core.html
>>
>> http://metadataregistry.org/schemaprop/list/schema_id/5.html
>>
>> kc
>>
>> Quoting Benjamin O'Steen <bosteen at gmail.com>:
>>
>> >
>> > Two hopefully quick points:
>> >
>> > After the massive FRBR thread, I came away with the notion that Work and
>> > Expression are redundant levels, and that by redrawing the lines between
>> > the layers and adding in more verbs we could better serve the aim of
>> > FRBR'ising the records.
>> >
>> > So... where are the verbs? I've been moving house etc so haven't
>> > followed the threads as close as I'd like, but I do think this is a
>> > perfect opportunity to collaborate on a list of verbs that interrelates
>> > the classes that remain - the new 'Work', 'Manifestation' and 'Item'
>> >
>> > Shall we kick off an etherpad for this? or has someone already started
>> > collating predicates and I am just behind the times?
>> >
>> > --------------------
>> >
>> > Electronic Items
>> >
>> > Item doesn't make an awful lot of sense with regards electronics or
>> > born-digital items. I think that we might broaden the schema a little
>> > here to allow something like an OAI-ORE Aggregation here instead of an
>> > Item. Would it be preferable to subclass it as 'DigitalItem' or to use
>> > it unaltered?
>> >
>> > This would enable us to describe whatever granularity of digital item we
>> > want or are able to using RDF relationships.
>> >
>> > Ben
>> >
>> > PS forgive me if I have just summarised previous conversations - I am
>> > catching up!
>> >
>> >
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