[open-bibliography] FRBR examples

Thu May 27 08:38:37 UTC 2010

Thanks, Karen. This pretty much rubs in that there is no "quick start" 
for this model, and the person creating records is expected to 
understand the details of the data model. This may work well with fully 
trained library staff, but in the author-deposits world I work in, 
that's impractical.

Part of the goal of open bibliographic data is that it should be 
reasonably easy for people to create and consume (and discover, but 
that's a separate discussion).

This model seems to describe the 'truth' better than some, but does it 
facilitate or hinder creation and consumption?

Karen Coyle wrote:
> 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/
>
>
>

-- 
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/