At 11:12 AM 3/8/2010, Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
If, in current practice, a multipart is described in just one record
with a long 505 for the parts, then what is the "item"? Specifically,
if the parts have their own titles and can be cited and looked upon
as manifestations of a work. Take "Lord of the Rings" and "Shakespeare's
Plays".
I don't believe that FRBR deals explicitly with multiparts; in FRBR
terms, the entire multivolume set would constitute one item belonging
to the manifestation of the expression of the work representing the
set as a whole. Alternatively, each volume would be an item
belonging to the manifestation of the expression of the work embodied
in that volume. It seems to me that FRBR lets you model the
situation either way -- or both.
John Attig
Penn State University
jx...@psu.edu
