Re: [RDA-L] Question about RDA relationships (App. J)

At 01:42 PM 3/5/2010, Karen Coyle wrote: I made the mistake of using a term without identifying it, sorry. In semantic web terms, this is a statement: Herman Melville -- is author of -- Moby Dick While library records today have that same information, it doesn't make sense outside of the

Re: [RDA-L] Question about RDA relationships (App. J)

Quoting John Attig jx...@psu.edu: Thanks, John... a bit more discussion Two comments: 1. You stress the independence of the statements, which I agree does give them value in a semantic web context. However, for many of us, the more important question is how we aggregate these

Re: [RDA-L] Question about RDA relationships (App. J)

John, thanks once again. Great common-sense thinking here, and I appreciate your candor. Quoting John Attig jx...@psu.edu: This doesn't address the aggregate question that Jonathan speaks to here. I suspect that by some logic, aggregates are expressions... ? True? I would certainly