Quoting Lee Passey <[email protected]>: > > Because "Authors" and "Works" are orthogonal (related but > independent), before > I could design a database schema for the FRBR Group 2 entities > (IMEW), I first > wanted to design a database schema for FRBR Group 1 entities > (responsibleEntities).
BTW, that's backwards: Group 1 is the bibliographic WEMI or IMEW; Group 2 is the responsible parties or agents. > > FRBR only defines two types of "responsibleEntities": Persons and Corporate > Bodies. Certainly the "Citizens United" case has significantly blurred the > line between "real" people and "artificial" people (corporations). But I'm > pretty sure that "The 9/11 Commission" is neither a person or a corporation. > And what about NGOs (non-governmental organizations) which are not persons, > corporations, governmental agencies or commissions? The "Corporate body" of FRBR (and of library cataloging) is not a corporation but is any group of people acting as a whole. So it includes governments, NGOs, orchestras and bands, clubs, conferences and meetings, and just about everything else you can imagine. Note that FRAD (which covers Group 2) has added Family to the list, so it is now Person, Corporate Body, and Family. Family is used heavily in archives, and in current data is treated like a special case of Person (probably because it was an afterthought), just as Conference is treated pretty much like a special case of Corporate Body. Here's the definition from ISBD: Corporate body ?Any organization or group of persons and/or organizations that is identified by a particular name. This includes named occasional groups and events, such as meetings, conferences, congresses, expeditions, exhibitions, festivals and fairs. Typical examples of corporate bodies are associations, institutions, business firms, nonprofit enterprises, governments, government agencies, religious bodies and conferences. kc -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ 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]
