Re: Disjointedness of FRBR classes

Hi Ian,

> I'm not party to the full discussion but in our bib data modelling
> at Talis we moved on from FRBR towards describing the real 
> objects, not an abstract model of them.

If you discuss about FRBR long enough, works, manifestations,
expressions
and items become pretty real ;-)

> Rob Styles at Talis blogged about it a couple of years ago but his
> blog is temporarily offline. Here's a substantial quote from it
though:
> http://www.frbr.org/2009/11/13/styles-bringing-frbr-down-to-earth

Does this reflect current work at Talis on modeling/describing
bibliographic
resources?

http://consulting.talis.com/2011/07/british-library-data-model-overview/

I don't expect Talis and British Library to implement full FRBR, but I 
wonder about the lack of any concept of holdings, items, copies etc. 
compared to at least editions. Do the central URIs in the BL model 
represent physical books? What about books with two or more 
copies in the BL - two unrelated URIs? Are there no relations 
between multiple editions of the same book? 

Jakob

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Digitale Bibliothek - Jakob Voß
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37073 Goettingen - Germany
+49 (0)551 39-10242
http://www.gbv.de
jakob.voss@gbv.de

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