Alexander wrote: "Just the fact that trained professional librarians can't
agree easily on what is what is a *huge* hint to why there is something
wrong with the current model."
Actually, Alexander et al., the main area of disagreement concerning
work/expression has to do with adaptation. Music catalogers consider Ingmar
Bergman's Magic flute to be the work of Mozart, while film catalogers
consider it to be a collaborative moving image work adapted from and based
on the work of Mozart (in other words, a new related work). Public library
catalogers consider the film Gone with the wind to be the same work as the
novel Gone with the wind, while film catalogers consider these to be two
related works. I agree with those who have suggested that if we just code
things explicitly, we should be able to have options at the point of
display. For example, if we treat the two Magic flutes as related works,
there is nothing to prevent music library cataloging software from treating
the condition "related work that is moving image material" as "moving image
versions" on display. Treating them as related works gives you more
flexibility in relating other things to them. The sound track, set designs,
scripts, costumes, and critical works about Bergman's film can all be
related to the film, while the score can be related to Mozart's work.
In other respects, we have all been agreeing on the definition of work for
hundreds of years, as witness the thousands of name-title work authority
records in the national name authority file which we all use daily.
Martha
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Cataloging Supervisor
UCLA Film & Television Archive
1015 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90038-2616
323-462-4921 x27
323-469-9055 (fax)
myee_at_ucla.edu (Email at work)
Campus mail:
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"You have a dollar. I have a dollar. We swap. Now you have my dollar and I
have your dollar. We are not better off. You have an idea. I have an idea.
We swap. Now you have two ideas and I have two ideas. Both are richer. When
you gave, you have. What I got, you did not lose. That’s cooperation"—Jimmy
Durante quoted in Schnozzola, by Gene Fowler, 1951, p. 207-208.
Received on Mon Dec 10 2007 - 12:08:04 EST