[open-bibliography] FRBR examples

Wed May 26 18:34:06 UTC 2010

There are some attempts at examples on the DC-RDA wiki:

http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/Scenarios

For each scenario, click on the link that looks like "Scenarios/1" and  
you'll see turtle and RDF/XML representations of the data using FRBR  
entities and RDA elements. These haven't gotten much discussion and  
I'm not sure I agree with all of it, but we can add more examples and  
more interpretations of them on that site if that would help.

kc

Quoting Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:

> I think I would feel much more confident about FRBR's
> Work/Expression/Manifestation/Item model if there was a robust set of
> examples of each level in the model.
>
> The best I could find is
>
>    * *the work*, a distinct intellectual or artistic creation
>    * *the expression*, the intellectual or artistic realization of a work
>    * *the manifestation*, the physical embodiment of an expression of a
>      work
>    * *the item*, a single exemplar of a manifestation.
>
> Which is all very well, but it's still pretty impenetrable. I'd like to
> see (in the first 10 results for googling FRBR) some examples, such as
> books, videos, music, a PDF of a confernce paper, a recording of a
> performance of a play, and so forth. I think it would cut through much
> of the confusion.
>
> Given a set of examples for each level, it would be so much easier for
> people to map things into the model. Without it there's going to be
> heaps of junk data where people just guess.
>
> Also, making some examples would expose any confusion and assumptions.
>
> -- 
> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248
>
> / Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
> / Web Projects Manager, ECS, University of Southampton,
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
> / Webmaster, Web Science Trust, http://www.webscience.org/

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