Re: Modelling library, catalogue, record, and item

Quoting Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@gbv.de>:


>
> 2.) The publication that is described by the library record. I used  
> a blank node to model this, because known identifiers (such as ISBN)  
> are not as unique as they seem to be. I hesitated to make this a  
> bibo:Document from the Bibliographic ontology, because the latter  
> says "A document (noun) is a bounded physical representation of body  
> of information". But we also have non-physical publications.

Digital publications are considered bounded, in that they are not  
infinite: they can be measured (in bytes). So you could use  
bibo:Document for them. The main criterion for documents, IMO, is  
"fixity": has it been recorded in some form? The only creative acts  
that I can think of that aren't documents by that definition are  
unrecorded performance (including speeches). Perhaps there are others?

kc

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