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 _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
