I guess I did not read the Final Report that carefully, since I'm not
sure what the difference is between aggregating expressions/works and
aggregate expressions/works. What we do in Virtua is allow you to have
a Manifestation, which contains separate Works, linked to multiple
Expressions/Works, including an Expression/Work for the Manifestation
(an aggregate). I think Figure 3 in the Final Report illustrates the
process very well.
You can see a powerpoint presentation on our RDA/FRBR implementation at
http://www.vtls.com/products/virtua
and click on the hyperlink at the bottom of the page:
Insights and Processes from VTLS's 8 Years of Experience with FRBR and
RDA
<http://www.vtls.com/sites/vtls.com/files/products/media/RDA2010Julweb.pdf>
It is a couple of years old now, but it still illustrates the system okay,
John Espley
VTLS Inc
On 1/15/2012 10:59 AM, Heidrun Wiesenmüller wrote:
John Espley wrote:
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).
Sorry for being a bit suspicious here: Have you really implemented
_aggregating_ expressions and works, or rather _aggregate_ expressions
and works? Perhaps you can give us an idea of what sort of data
elements are stored in the records for these entities, and how they
are presented to the users.
Heidrun
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Stuttgart Media University
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