On Nov 15, 2010, at 7:18 PM, Lee Passey wrote: > > OK, you lose me here. As I understand WEMI, it is a stricly hierarchical > collection of attribute|propertie values from highly abstract "works" to > highly concrete "items" (I personally prefer the term 'instances'). While > a single work may have a multitude of Expressions, an Expression is the > expression of one, and only one work. > [...] > Likewise, every assertion|attribute value|property value of or about an > Expression is also a valid assertion|attribute value|property value of or > about the Manifestation that manifests the Expression. A Manifestation > cannot exist without (conceptually) a specific Expression, which again > references a specific Work.
Be careful with your reasoning here, because FRBR describes a many-to-many relationship between Expressions and Manifestations, not a one-to-many relationship. Peter -- Peter Murray [email protected] tel:+1-678-235-2955 Assistant Director http://dltj.org/about/ Lyrasis -- Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers. The Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/ Attrib-Noncomm-Share http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ _______________________________________________ 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]
