Schutt, Misha wrote:
The moral of this story, I guess, is that two works may be separated by multiple layers of derivativeness.
True. Traditionally, we didn't give much attention to the closeness or the nature of a relationship between works. If at all, one added a uniform title and a little, rather informal note and that was it - let the user figure out the usefulness of that. RDA, however, asks for a more detailed inspection because it is a cornerstone of the FRBR model that related works, expressions and manifestations be made transparent and meaningfully presented in a catalog to assist the users in their arduous tasks of finding and selecting the right thing. And this will mean a bit more work, sometimes bordering on literary criticism, delving much deeper into the content than cataloging rules used to require. B.Eversberg
