[open-bibliography] FRBR examples

[Christopher Gutteridge]

On 27/05/10 15:14, Rob Styles wrote:
> 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.
>
Such relationships should be described by some kind of extension, if at 
all. Describing relationships like this semantically is difficult and of 
limited value for the effort and complexity required.

If I want to read a copy of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, then 
any copy in a language I speak is fine. An audio book could/should be 
considered as just-another-manifestation, but a film or audio drama is 
just a related work. Relationships between different works is an entire 
rabbit hole of its own which is not essential to providing a useful 
model. It can be added to a working model later, probably with different 
datasets requiring different ways of modelling such things.



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