Re: WorldCat Works Data

Lars, that is correct. Each translation gets its own ISTC. However, ISTCs
are linked in the metadata for each ISTC record, so one would refer to the
other.

On 2/26/14, 5:57 AM, "Svensson, Lars" <L.Svensson@dnb.de> wrote:

>All,
>
>just a short observation/question from me:
>
>> € Will your team be making use of ISTC?
>> Again it is still early for decisions in this area.  However we would
>>not expect
>> to store the ISTC code as a property of Work
>> ISTC is one of many work based data sets, from national libraries and
>> others,  that it would be interesting to investigate processes for
>>identifying
>> sameAs relationships between.
>
>I might be mistaken, but IIRC each translation of a text gets its own
>ISTC which renders the ISTC language-specific. Since frbr:Works are
>language-independent and language is part of frbr:Expression, the work
>_cannot_ contain an ISTC. Correct?
>
>/Lars
>
>P. S. Interesting stuff going on at OCLC, I haven't delved into it yet,
>but shall try to in the next couple of days!
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 26 February 2014 12:51:25 UTC