I was organizing some ancient computer files tonight and I found Herbert
Hoffman's research that shows there are only 14 ways that analytics can
relate. I am sending it along as a reference in case it would be
useful. As this was contained in a personal communication from him, I
am unsure whether it exists anywhere in the literature.
Martha
The Fourteen Ways That Analytics Can Relate
Martha J. Lindeman, Ph.D.
Because "document" is such an ambiguous term, there are multiple levels
of "intra-document structure". To identify and understand each type, it
is necessary to explore relationships among documents, containers,
items, works, analytics, sets, etc. The following information is my
slight modification of the work of Herbert H. Hoffman (who was Catalog
Librarian at Rancho Santiago College in Santa Ana, California). We
corresponded about this in 1989 while I was a Research Scientist at OCLC.
*Document* - Actually, it is better not to use this term because of its
great ambiguity of meaning. In the mid-80's, Altherton equated it to a
"*container*" such as a physical book, cassette, etc., but there are
many problems with this definition when discussing electronic
"documents" that may be pulled together at the time of display.
/However, this definition must be used to allow the table of
relationships shown below. /
*Item* - Informally, anything listed in a bibliographic library as a
single "thing". The formal definition was from the American Library
Association Glossary of 1983, which is a "document or set of documents
in any physical form, published, issued or treated as an entity, and as
such forming the basis for a single bibliographic description." An item
can consist of one or several parts, and it can be finite (a closed set)
or infinite (a unending, continuing set).
*Work* - An intellectual unit. The same work may appear in various
physical formats and containers.
*Set* - A item that is stored in more than one container.
This table is adapted from 2/3/89 letter from Herbert H. Hoffman.
**
**
*One Item in one container*
*One Item Comprised Of Multiple Containers*
*= Set*
**
Finite Number of Containers
Infinite Number of Containers
**
Containers Have Titles
(Book & Set Titles)
Containers Without Titles
(Set Title Only)
Containers Have Titles
(Book & Set Titles)
Containers Without Titles
(Set Title Only)
**
Described by Container
Described as Item
Described by Container
Described as Item
*One Work Per Item*
**
*1*
**
**
*3*
**
**
**
*Multiple Works Per Item*
Two or more Works Per Container
*2*
*4*
*5*
*6*
*9*
*10*
*11*
*Multiple Works Per Item*
One Work Per Container
**
*7*
*8*
**
*12*
*13*
*14*
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