Apologies if this question has been addressed somewhere in the RDA
drafts, but I'm unclear about the relationship between the words
'resources' and 'entities' in RDA. The RDA Scope and Structure document
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/docs/5rda-scope.pdf defines a
resource as an identifiable
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I'm unclear about the relationship between the words
'resources' and 'entities' in RDA. The RDA Scope and Structure document
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/docs/5rda-scope.pdf defines a
resource as an identifiable information object, either
Karen Coyle said:
Could you explain how authority work records would take care of the FRBR
Group 1 entities? That might be a nifty solution if it could be made to
work. (There's nothing that says that the FRBR entities must be
expressed in the bibliographic record, at least not yet.)
A user certainly may search for the representation of a person, corporate body
or even a concept in the Web, leading him to all resources to which the person,
corporate body or concept are related. To define only group 1 entities as
resources would make a very artificial distinction between
Hengel-Dittrich, Christina wrote:
A user certainly may search for the representation of a person,
corporate body or even a concept in the Web, leading him to
all resources to which the person, corporate body or concept are
related.
To define only group 1 entities as resources would make a
Thomas, I really appreciate your analysis of the uses of resource in RDA.
I guess the next question is what difference does it make? That is, is this
confusion of FRBR levels and loose use of resource fatal in RDA, or is it
something catalogers can work with? Does it change meaning?
I was going
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Thomas, I really appreciate
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