Re: FRBR WEMI and identifiers

From: Weinheimer Jim <j.weinheimer_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:55:23 +0100
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:

<snip>
Jakob Voss wrote:
>
> Right. The only usable work identifiers that I know of are LibraryThing
> Work identifiers and some Wikipedia articles about works
I'd consider LC uniform title authority record IDs to be work
identifiers.  No?
</snip>

I would consider them primarily more as expressions e.g.
100 	1_ |a Shakespeare, William, |d 1564-1616. |t Sonnets. |l German & English. |k Selections
400 	1_ |a Shakespeare, William, |d 1564-1616. |t Dreissig Sonette
400 	1_ |a Shakespeare, William, |d 1564-1616. |t Das ist die feinste Liebeskunst
400 	1_ |a Shakespeare, William, |d 1564-1616. |t Liebessonette
670 	__ |a Shakespeare, W. Dreissig Sonette, c2002.
670 	__ |a Das ist die feinste Liebeskunst, 2004.
670 	__ |a Liebessonette, 1999.
Here, the 100 $a$t is the work, the rest is an expression.

This one includes some manifestation information:
130 	_0 |a Bible. |p O.T. |p Genesis. |l Catalan. |s Clascar. |d 1914

although this gets into the problem of defining an expression in terms of changes in the manifestation, a long continuing practice.

But I'm not sure if the work here is the 130 a, or 130 a,p or 130 a,p,p. Probably the latter, and then the rest is the expression.

Jim Weinheimer
Received on Tue Nov 10 2009 - 10:56:32 EST