Tim,
You said, "The Kindle store has a work-clustering concept too. And it's not FRBR."
I wonder if you could tell us some more about the Kindle store's work-clustering concept? I ask because I wonder how different from the generic outline of WEMI in the FRBR any work concept relating to textual works could be. After all, FRBR is largely a re-statement in fairly rigorous and formal terms of the traditional publication concepts and practices relating to the idea of a "work," the idea of "editions," and the practices of book production itself that create sets of individual units that contain the "work." I guess my question comes down to this. Is the Kindle work-clustering concept based on traditional publishing concepts and practices coded into a useful algorithm or is the Kindle work clustering concept based on some other more or less formal and rigorous articulation of either the traditional practices and ideas or some innovative alternative?
Matthew Beacom
Received on Wed Oct 21 2009 - 09:25:14 EDT