Hi, Ross. Me just getting back from travels, a bit behind.

So...

but isn't it the case that the manifestations are different? That's  
the one thing we know, because they have different data (publisher,  
date, pagination, etc.). So unfortunately I do think that we are  
having to say that these are (Probably?) the same work/expression.

BTW, I saw some great slides at SWIB (Semantic Web in Bibliotheken) in  
Cologne, and I will ask Alexander Haffner to put them up online, even  
though they are in German -- he has a great sequence where he shows  
how they create WEMI instances, then merge on W and E after the fact  
(and it includes the possible solution to my identifier problem).

kc

Quoting Ross Singer <[email protected]>:

> Karen, I've been thinking about this some more (oddly, on another day
> where I have to chaparone another of my son's field trips) and rather
> than claiming that these two resources are describing same endeavour
> (which, I fear, will get too abstract), it might make more sense to
> say that both resources share the same manifestation (which, I think
> is what we really mean, and care about, anyway).
>
> So, instead of endeavourRelation, what about:
>
> ov:commonManifestation
> domain: rdfs:Resource
> range: rdfs:Resource
>
> This property indicates that both resources are describing a
> bibliographic endeavour that implicitly contains the same
> manifestation.  It is intended to be used to help relate FRBR entities
> to bibliographic descriptions that are not modeled in FRBR (or two
> bibliographic descriptions that are not modeled in FRBR) but contains
> data that refers to the same manifestation.
>
> Obviously the description could use some editing, but does the general
> idea make sense?
>
> Thanks!
> -Ross.
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Ross, your associatedEntity description reads:
>>
>> "This property is used to relate two FRBR Endeavours/entities
>> (http://vocab.org/frbr/core.html#Endeavour) together even if the
>> entire Work-Expression-Manifestation-Item hierarchy does not exist.
>> For example, it could be used to relate a frbr:Work to a
>> frbr:Manifestation without the need of a frbr:Expression to link them
>> through. The property is symmetric (if a <_:work> ov:associatedEntity
>> <_:item> then <_:item> ov:associatedEntity <_:work>. It is not
>> transitive (items may be associated with the same work but not be in
>> the same WEMI chain, for example)."
>>
>> Could this be generalized to work beyond FRBR? I'm thinking that it
>> might be useful to link, for example, a MARC record to a FRBR work
>> entity. Obviously it would be better to have a link that tells you HOW
>> the two things are related/associated, but I can well imagine many
>> situations where something more general will be useful. So maybe
>> something like:
>>
>> "This property is used to relate two bibliographic entities (such as
>> as subclasses of FRBR Endeavor;
>> http://vocab.org/frbr/core.html#Endeavour) together even if they are
>> not entities of the same type. For example, a bibliographic entity in
>> a MARC record could be associated with any FRBR entity; or FRBR
>> entities could be related even though where entire
>> Work-Expression-Manifestation-Item hierarchy does not exist, e.g. to
>> relate a frbr:Work to a frbr:Manifestation without the need of a
>> frbr:Expression to link them through. The property is symmetric (if a
>> <_:work> ov:associatedEntity <_:item> then <_:item>
>> ov:associatedEntity <_:work>. It is not transitive (items may be
>> associated with the same work but not be in the same WEMI chain, for
>> example)."
>>
>> Or is that just too generic?
>>
>> kc
>>
>> Quoting Ross Singer <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Ok, I just created:
>>> http://open.vocab.org/terms/associatedEntity
>>>
>>> which links two frbr:Endeavours together symmetrically.
>>>
>>> -Ross.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Ross Singer  
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Karen, Erik is right that:
>>>>
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/works/OL262758W/>
>>>>    frbr:Manifestation <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL10236414M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL10636839M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL10681592M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL10686044M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL13268284M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL1937352M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL20352933M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL21968605M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL22836306M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24374464M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24375966M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL3969888M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL5416735M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL5526619M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6363476M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7261137M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7262049M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7262683M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7603172M/>,
>>>> <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7851787M/> ;
>>>>    a frbr:Work .
>>>>
>>>> isn't going to work (frbr:Manifestation being a class, not a
>>>> property).  While you're right that there is no (current) obvious way
>>>> to go jump over frbr:Entities in the WEMI chain, there are some
>>>> options here.
>>>>
>>>> For the version of the OL data that we host in the Platform, we're
>>>> using dcterms:hasVersion/isVersionOf.
>>>>
>>>> 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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