At Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:36:15 -0800,
Karen Coyle wrote:
> > Also, do you want to make <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24091785M/>
> > have type frbr:Manifestation?
> 
> That's the big question. The OL "book" is not a FRBR manifestation...  
> it's a thing of OL's own invention that has some elements of  
> manifestation, expression and even work. This is somewhat like having  
> a MARC record in a database that has created FRBR Work "records", but  
> that hasn't separated all of the data into WEMI; instead, the original  
> bibliographic record remains somewhat unchanged. It's similar to  
> WorldCat's implementation, I think. The problem is that we don't have  
> an entity defined for it, and we need something that can represent a  
> general bib record*. I feel like calling this frbr:Manifestation is  
> going to come back to bite us, somewhat like all of the erroneous  
> owl:sameAs declarations that are out there in the wild. I'm stumped at  
> this point.
> 
> (* Actually, I am beginning to think that the rigidity of FRBR makes  
> it almost unusable in real situations with existing (and future  
> non-frbr) bibliographic data.)

Right, sorry. I got lost in that conversation.

> > Finally, I wonder if the issue of trailing slashes could be dealt
> > with? [1]
> 
> Yes. That's because the book data comes out of a different template,  
> and adding the slashes means reworking a bunch of the template code.  
> It's on the list.

OK, thanks. I don’t understand how OL templates work so this stuff is
a little opaque to me.

best, Erik
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