RE: WorldCat Works Data

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 10:57:39 UTC