On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
Karen,

I think the property I just made (the ov:associatedEntity) does
exactly what you want.  A way to interpret it would be: "these
entities are associated with each other in the same WEMI chain".  It
doesn't matter what they are (Work<->Item, Expression<->Item,
Work<->Manifestation).  Plus it's symmetrical, so if you just say that
a <work> ov:associatedEntity <manifestation>, it's entailed that the
<manifestation> ov:associatedEntity <work>.

It's effectively doing the same thing as
dcterms:hasVersion/isVersionOf without A) needing the explicit inverse
relationship B) any semantics implied in the relationship/inverse.

-Ross.
> Thanks, Ross.
>
> I think the issue is that there isn't a way to describe the
> manifestation as an object of the Work -- the manifestation needs to
> be expressed as:
>
> URI4Manifestation a type frbr:Manifestation
> URI4Manifestation workManifested URI4Work
>
> Without a reciprocal relationship, there isn't a way to say:
>
> URI4Work hasManifestation URI4Manifestation
>
> I was trying to describe the Manifestation with the Work "stripe", but
> that isn't possible (without a new predicate, as Jonathan suggests). I
> hesitate to mess too much  with FRBR -- it's enough of a mess already,
> and following it as best I can is a way (IMO) of showing whether it
> can work or not. (I often think not.)
>
> I'll try another model, then maybe blog it and see what people have to
> say. I also think that it's mainly hard to do this in RDF/XML so maybe
> it's time for me to get adept at turtle.
>
>>
>> For the version of the OL data that we host in the Platform, we're
>> using dcterms:hasVersion/isVersionOf.
>
> Hmmm. I don't think that meets the definitions of the FRBR group 1
> entities in relation to each other. (I read the FRBR entities as
> additive and hierarchical.) However, in some ways that makes more
> sense to me than the FRBR entity relationships. It would allow you to
> connect any entity to any other entity, not daisy-chaining them the
> way FRBR requires you to. Another option would be to have them all be
> related to a defined whole -- a defined "bibliographic entity." Note,
> however, that the FRBR review group rejects that view (no, I don't
> know what their reasoning is.) That is another possible model that
> would be interesting to play with.
>
> kc
>
>
>>
>> http://api.talis.com/stores/openlibrary/meta?about=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL262758W&output=xml
>>
>> which isn't great, but the fact that both ends of the chain are
>> frbr:Entities, we can infer the meaning.  Even better would be add
>> properties to http://open.vocab.org/: something like
>> hasManifestation/manifestationOf. Perhaps even better would be to
>> leverage http://vocab.org/frbr/core.html#Endeavour - associatedEntity
>> as a property name perhaps? - that makes the modeling less
>> complicated.  That way we know that these are in the same WEMI chain,
>> but we don't necessarily have to explicitly define /what/ it is in the
>> relationship.
>>
>> -Ross.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Quoting Erik Hetzner <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> What I meant to be getting at is that the rdf:type of the resources
>>>> M1, M2, ... is (currently) workManifested, while the predicate linking
>>>> W and M1, M2, ... is frbr:Manifestation. I think this is backwards;
>>>> they rdf:type should be frbr:Manifestation, while the predicate should
>>>> be workManifested.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Erik. From this conversation I have come to the realization
>>> that there is no way to say: "this Work is Manifested as..." using
>>> FRBR concepts. Instead, what I need to do is to create short "records"
>>> for each manifestation that in effect each say: "manifests WorkX". I
>>> don't think I can encapsulate the whole in a single rdf/xml unit
>>> without creating some uber-structure that holds them together (which
>>> would perhaps be a representation of FRBR Group 1 as a super-class,
>>> something the the FRBR committee has rejected). I'll mock up something
>>> and post it before I code it into the OL template.
>>>
>>> kc
>>>
>>>>
>>>> As to which direction workManifested points, or its domain or range, I
>>>> have no clue, but I assume you are correct here.
>>>>
>>>> best, Erik
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