Re: Non- and Partial-FRBR Metadata

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:05:21PM -0400, Ross Singer wrote:
> My personal opinion is that any RDF representation of FRBR, owing to
> RDF's open world assumption, should be able to account for any entity
> being missing from the initial point of modeling -- if all you "know"
> about is the Item and the Work (or Expression or whatever), then we
> should be able to go with that and patch in the blank holes later.

Out of last week's thread on FRBR, I think this is the key point.
If we try to distill general issues in Pittsburgh, this should be
one of them.

Tom

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Thomas Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>

Received on Monday, 27 September 2010 21:12:36 UTC