Martha Yee wrote:
> what are the implications of reusing the FRBR
> work/expression/manifestation entity definitions? Would that not imply
> reusing the entity mapping of bibliographic elements that are part of the
> FRBR RDF expression?
I think you are more-or-less right, but I also think that it is not surprising you are finding deficiencies in the existing FRBR definitions, because the existing FRBR definitions have not been worked on sufficiently. The work you are doing is very important as one aspect of actually testing what's there for FRBR--something that hasn't really been done.
So I think you are right to fix it when it seems broken, so long as you are clear about why you thought it was broken and how you fixed it (which you are).
Ideally, your fixes could be fed back to the FRBR "standard", if they seemed obviously agreeable. Unfortunately, it's not clear if FRBR really has an infrastructure for this kind of maintenance--it needs one. But at least, I'd urge you to send your suggested fixes to whatever email addresses you can find for the FRBR committee. Perhaps they have some reason we don't yet know for doing things as they have.
Jonathan
>
> Thanks for any advice the data modelling folks can offer...
>
> Martha
>
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> Subject: [NGC4LIB] RDF expression of FRBR
>
>
> Martha has done some impressive work in both producing Cataloguing Rules
> and RDF, but a question raised on her blog by Bruce D'Arcus
> (http://yeecatrule.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/hello-world/#comments) is
> why not use and build on the existing FRBR RDF expression at
> http://vocab.org/frbr/frbr-core-20050810
>
> Although I realise that Martha's rules deviate from FRBR, I think that
> if we can build on what looks like some relatively good work (to my
> admittedly untutored eye) then we should.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Owen
>
> Owen Stephens
> Assistant Director: e-Strategy and Information Resources
> Imperial College London Library
> Imperial College London
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> Tel: 020 7594 8829
> Email: o.stephens_at_imperial.ac.uk
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The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
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Received on Tue Dec 11 2007 - 15:26:31 EST