The miscellaneous ends at my sock drawer, as Weinberger says, but on
Saturdays it ends in my picnic basket. :)
On 5/19/07, Brenndorfer, Thomas <tbrenndorfer_at_library.guelph.on.ca> wrote:
> > 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 - 13:23:10 EDT