[open-bibliography] FRBR examples

[Karen Coyle]

On 5/27/10 7:14 AM, Rob Styles wrote:
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> And yet, in many contexts the movie will provide an appealing, or even preferred, substitute for the book. Yet by recognising the movie as a work we no longer recognised the relationship with the novel on which it is based. Even more so should we consider the relationship between Rome and Juliet and West Side Story, or the relationship between Mama Mia and the Abba songs.
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> FRBR has abstracted away all the detail that would allow this rich tapestry to be described in a useful way.
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No, it hasn't. Because FRBR is not just WEMI. Half or more of the FRBR 
document is about bibliographic relationships, but we seem to keep 
forgetting that. You CAN create a relationship between the text and the 
movie (I believe it is "adapted" in this case) and you could FAVOR those 
relationships in your display. I think we keep getting tripped up in 
WEMI and forget that there is a very rich set of relationships both in 
FRBR and RDA. See my "Table of Relationships by Entity":
   http://kcoyle.net/rda/group1relsby.html

What is keeping us from creating a really impressive web of 
relationships is that we can't agree on what the relationships link - 
that is, WEMI. WEMI is the weak link, but we need THINGS to relate to 
other THINGS. And, as Ross and I have simultaneously pointed out, 
presenting users with long lists of publications that contain virtually 
the same content is not a good way to have them visualize the 
bibliographic world. So we need a high level view (call it story, call 
it work, I really don't care) before we get down to the actual 
retrievable items. In fact, I think that there is value in this high 
level view apart from getting users to the content -- that we could have 
a very interesting discussion about relationships abstracted from 
retrieving the content itself.

kc

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