> The specific list of relationships in the FRBR document (which may not
> include 'is a performance of', but may include some more generic
> category of this), the FRBR document all but admits was just an initial
> sketch of what relationships were possible, and was not meant to be
> definitive or complete. That we haven't actually done work to polish
> off
> this list of relationships in the past ten years---is a pity.
There is actually a significant amount of work done in this area, including research by Barbara Tillett [1], Sherry Vellucci [2], and Gregory Leazer and Richard Smiraglia [3], a good deal of it prior to the FRBR report, some after. It's my understanding the FRBR folks knew about much of this work (especially Tillett's) and decided not to replicate it in the FRBR report. I'm not saying there's no more work to be done, just that it's unfair to say nothing has been done.
Jenn
(In addition to these papers, each of these authors has several other reports on this and/or similar research out there.)
[1] Tillett, B.A.B. (1987), "Bibliographic relationships: toward a conceptual structure of bibliographic information used in cataloging", doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
[2] Vellucci, Sherry M. Bibliographic Relationships in Music Catalogs. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1997.
[3] Leazer, G.H., Smiraglia, R.P. (1996), "Toward the bibliographic control of works: derivative bibliographic relationships in an online union catalog", in Fox, E.A. and Marchionini, G. (Eds), Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, Bethesda, Maryland, March 20-23, 1996, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 36-43.
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