Dear all, We're working on a CIDOC-CRM/FRBRoo model to represent a collection of Islamic manuscripts
It is organised into Codices. Further we have the concepts of Witness and Text. A Witness is a manuscript – a hand produced copy – of a Text. A Codex contains several Witnesses bound together. A Codex can exist several times, similar to a copy of a book, and appear in catalogues of other collections. However, the copies of the Codices are hand-made, binding together several Witnesses. Our difficulty when modelling this comes due to the definition of F5 Item and F4 Manifestation Singleton in FRBRoo. It would make sense to model our copy of a Codex as an F5 Item, being an example of F3 Manifestation Product Type. However, the scope note of F5 states that it is an object produced through an industrial process, e.g. printing. The physical texts that are bound together in a codex are however manual transcriptions. The definition of F4 Manifestation Singletons for the Witnesses is however also not appropriate, as we know several transcriptions of the same text exist. F5 Item would be more appropriate for our Witnesses, but does it apply in our case? Another difficulty is when modelling the Codex as a binding together of physical manuscripts and the texts they hold. Our direction is to model a Codex as F15 Complex Work, that is realised in a F24 Publication Expression carried by an E84 Information Carrier. The Texts are then F14 Individual Work (as members of F15) realised in F22 Self-Contained Expression (as components of F24). The Witnesses are E84 Information Carriers that carry said F22 and P48 compose the E84 Information Carrier that carries the F24. We did not use F4 or F5 here. Does this make sense? (See sketch: https://oc.rz-berlin.mpg.de/owncloud/index.php/s/AXJLkRmv0E00ecM) Best wishes, Florian
