Hiya,
Stephens, Owen <o.stephens_at_imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> I definitely appreciate that. However, I think a discussion of both why
> it wasn't right for Martha, and how well it represents FRBR would be
> useful?
Sure, and of course, and absolutely. I hope Martha answers you, but as
you also point out, a lot has been put up on her site and blog (which
is more openness than most these days) including her model decisions.
> Since Martha has issues with some of FRBR, and her cataloguing rules
> diverge from it, then an RDF expression of FRBR clearly isn't going to
> suit completely. On the otherhand, it doesn't necessarily mean starting
> from scratch.
That's not necessarily true ; FRBR in itself, and evident by the
discussions here of late, surely does not make me think that FRBR is
*one* defined thing we can all agree on. There's confusion of terms,
modeling issues, and relevance conundrums to be had. We all have
issues with FRBR. And given that FRBR is completely unproven in the
context of what we're trying to do, I'd say that if we are to accept
FRBR as is as finished, perfect and done, we're kidding ourselves.
And *then* there is an RDF version of FRBR, which is someones
interpretation of FRBR into some expression of it. And, I dare say,
there's many ways to model FRBR. F.eks. should names be a class (and
used as identifiers), or should names be properties of an Identity
class? FRBR itself doesn't care, but when you fiddle with ontologies
this becomes crucial. Neither way is *wrong*.
> There is already some discussion on the blog about this, but I thought
> it was worth exploring on this list as well...
As to the cataloging rules, I'm no expert, but I'd love to hear if you
have some modeling issues. I'm starting to think that for FRBR to
work, it needs to be a lot simpler, even if a lot of people think it's
simple already.
Alex
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