This list is an excellent summary of one sort of user inquiry at a library that has music stuff. But this sticks to Group 1 entities (WEMI).
How do we model questions that start at a more general level ...Do you have any 19th-century music, or Do you have music for orchestra, or Do you have symphonies, or Do you have scores? At first glance, the information needed to start at this more general level would seem to be in Group 3 entities (said to include Concept, Object, Event, Place), which are subjects of Group 1 entities. Beethoven's 5th symphony isn't *about* symphonies, though. It *is* a symphony. In music materials, "aboutness" plays a very small part. So where does FRBR put genre or form?
Jean
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>>> On 12/7/2007 at 5:07 AM, in message
<28AD4F9DFF3DD649B26B3027C78FB67305F3A01D_at_icex1.ic.ac.uk>, "Stephens, Owen"
<o.stephens_at_IMPERIAL.AC.UK> wrote:
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>
> Anyway, just to throw some more opinion in the pot, for me the FRBR
> entities are a reasonably good approximation to levels at which a user
> might make an enquiry about something in a library:
>
> Do you have Beethoven's 5th?
> Do you have a score of Beethoven's 5th?
> Do you have the 1971 Norton minature score of Beethoven's 5th
> Can I borrow this item?
>
> This suggests to me that if we were to build systems modelled our data
> in this way, it would be easy to build a user focussed interface which
> could give answers to these questions.
>
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>
> Owen
Received on Fri Dec 07 2007 - 12:11:59 EST