________________________________________ From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Heidrun Wiesenmüller [wiesenmuel...@hdm-stuttgart.de] Sent: January-14-12 11:28 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates
> Heidrun said: > >> Now I even wonder: Can an aggregating work have a title? > > Certainly they can: > > Shakespeare's Bonnets > Tennessee William's Plays > Faulkner's Short Stories > Conference on Biophysics > Equal Marriage Rights Symposium > Papers on Fracking >Sure, but these are plain simple _aggregate_ works, and not >_aggregating_ works in the sense of the Working Group. Remember their >claim: "The process of aggregating the expressions itself is an >intellectual or artistic effort and therefore meets the criteria for a >work." (p. 5). And in the "Understanding FRBR" example they say: "The >aggregating work encompasses all of the intellectual effort required to >identify the topics to be covered, solicit the authors, edit the >manuscripts, write the introduction, compile the index and other related >activities." (p. 13). The aggregating work therefore does not refer to >the _creation_ (e.g. a collection of essays or plays), but to the >_process_. Thomas said in one of his posts: "The aggregating work and >aggregating expression are entirely new entities that refer to an effort >of arrangement, and not the collective effort for the individual works." >Now: Could the "effort of arrangement" be something that has a title? I >doubt it. And to follow up on that, I think that "aggregating work" needs to redefined not as an entity, but as either a relationship or just an attribute of an entity. One could say an aggregating work exists when the relationship designator like "editor of compilation" exists, or one could just have a descriptive note describing the aggregating process as an attribute element. "Aggregating work" therefore shouldn't be seen as a Group 1 entity at all. It would never have a "title" in the sense of a work or manifestation having a title. One area to explore though is to look at relationships as being more complex-- which is to say that they may accrue attributes and new kinds of relationships. In fact, they are already: dramatization of (work) is subordinate to adaptation of (work) is subordinate to based on (work) is a Derivative Work Relationship is a Related Work Relationship Thomas Brenndorfer Guelph Public Library
