Hi Jim,
Just to follow onto what Ross said below, breaking these "records" out
into statements about the resources represented also is what it will
take to do what you suggest we do.
> links into Google Books, into the Internet Archive, into selected
> websites, into entertainment and educational videos and lectures,
> conferences, scholarly websites, reviews, ratings, Wikipedia, dbpedia
> and who knows what else?
If we want to be able to provide these linkages accurately, and without
a *tremendous* amount or repetitive effort, it will serve us very well
to have spent the time carefully crafting our metadata around a model of
the things that our metadata describes.
-Corey
Ross Singer wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Weinheimer Jim <j.weinheimer_at_aur.edu> wrote:
>> Jakob Voss wrote:
>> <snip>
>> In addition you can harvest the Semantic Web for expressions that other people have created. The rest only depends on nice interfaces that people can use for to manage FRBR statements.
>> </snip>
>>
>> This is one of the big problems, as I mentioned in an earlier message. Is this creating what our *patrons* want, or is it creating something that *we* want?
>
> Jim, I get what you're saying here, but I also think you're missing a
> really important point: there is no universal, one true way, that all
> people will want all resources.
>
> So let's go with the notion that the FRBR user objectives are
> antiquated (which I can't say I subscribe to, since this theory hasn't
> been tested as far as I know, but for the sake of argument...). If
> our data was reconfigured into a more FRBR-like model, we would have
> /significantly/ more freedom to construct, associate and index our
> resources in ways that /do/ work for /specific/ user communities for
> specific /needs, resources and activities/.
>
> By simply applying another coat of paint to AACR2, this sort of
> flexibility is impossible. Only by breaking our "records" into the
> individual resources they represent can we begin to represent the data
> according to the needs of an activity or user group. And to date,
> FRBR (and, by extension, RDA) has been the only realistic attempt to
> accomplish this.
>
> -Ross.
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Received on Fri Nov 06 2009 - 14:56:58 EST