Yes, see it at booth 729. Also there are two special demo's on Sunday
at Hyatt Regency, Room Bryan-Beeman A on our RDA/FRBR Implementation
Scenario One. I will be presenting the first one at 8:00 AM, and Robert
Pillow will be doing the one at 1:30 PM.
John
On 1/15/2012 10:49 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:
John, I'm dying to see how this displays. I assume this will be
available for viewing at ALA?
But of course I now have another question :-) for the list. FRBR
appears to have been designed on presumed database management
principles, in particular relational databases. A relational database
is a closed system in the sense that it needs to be coherent within
that one database, but no further. Does this same model work "in the
cloud" -- and by "cloud" I don't mean in a huge system like WorldCat,
which is really just one giant database, I mean integrated with the
Web, the real cloudy cloud.
kc
Quoting John Espley <espl...@vtls.com>:
Not sure what to say about "is there a way that is right" (I have my
private opinion about that, which I'm sure most of you can guess
what it is :-), but in regards to whether we can implement a system,
VTLS has implemented a RDA/FRBR Implementation Scenario One in our
Virtua ILS. Our system not only follows what is described in the
FRBR Final Report (that is, separate, linked, Work to Expressions to
Manifestations), but the system is also in line with the Final Report
of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates. That is, Virtua can have an
aggregating Manifestation which is linked to its aggregating
Expression to the Expressions aggregating Work as well as to the
individual Work/Expressions contained in the Manifestation (see
figure 3 in the Final Report). In other works the Manifestation can
be linked to multiple Expressions/Works.
John Espley
VTLS Inc.
On 1/15/2012 10:13 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:
Quoting Heidrun Wiesenmüller <wiesenmuel...@hdm-stuttgart.de>:
When I started this discussion, I already had a strong feeling that
the theory presented in the final report was somehow weird. Looking
back now, I find that I had only noticed the tip of the iceberg of
the "wrongness" then. Now after all the points we've covered during
the discussion, I really think the final report (in the main body
of the text) gets it utterly wrong and is, I'm afraid, rather
pointless.
Here's the million euro question: is there a way that is right? And,
bonus question: is that right way one we really think we can
implement in systems?
kc
Heidrun
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Stuttgart Media University
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