> Ultimately the binary relationships of both FRBR and LibraryThing's
> system aren't enough. The relations between books are as irresolvably
> complex as their subjects. This is why I favor "tagging
> relationships," bringing Weinberger's "kind-of sort-of" world to this
> area as well.
Indeed, as I was listing those FRBR/FRAD user tasks I thought about how
social data would fit in. Perhaps everything could be resolved to those
user tasks, but new attributes and relationships could be introduced
(FRBR/FRAD do explicitly limit their scope). Or the entity of the user
or aggregates of users, perhaps along the lines of Ross Singer's Core,
Community, and Global Realms could be brought in. I've always liked the
distinction between communities of interest (globe-spanning, but around
a topic) vs communities of geography (member of a book club, classroom,
or cardholders of a particular library).
But if everything is miscellaneous as Weinberger asserts, I thought that
was enough categorization to worry about, at least for a Saturday
afternoon.
Thomas Brenndorfer, B.A, M.L.I.S.
Guelph Public Library
100 Norfolk St.
Guelph, ON
N1H 4J6
(519) 824-6220 ext. 276
tbrenndorfer_at_library.guelph.on.ca
Received on Sat May 19 2007 - 13:11:14 EDT