[open-bibliography] My FRBR shareable units

Wed May 26 15:54:22 UTC 2010

Following up on the previous discussion, I did a blog post on how I  
see the "sharable units" in a FRBR world:

http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2010/05/frbr-and-sharability.html

Some of it seems quite obvious, but what I think we've run into is a  
difference between how FRBR defines its entities vs. what is the  
actual workable unit. So when people say "Manifestation" they are  
probably NOT referring to the FRBR Manifestation entity, but to a  
bibliographic description that includes the Work, Expression and  
Manifestation properties, as well as the links from Groups 2 & 3 to  
the Work entity.

I still see some inconsistencies in FRBR -- like the fact that  
although you can create a Corporate Body entity for a publisher and  
use a relationship "publisher of" to a Manifestation, the  
Manifestation includes a property for publisher name; but the Work  
does not include a property for creator name. I would really like to  
see these inconsistencies cleared up -- it would make it easier to  
model a FRBR bibliographic universe.

-- 
Karen Coyle
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