On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Dave Holmes-Kinsella <[email protected]> wrote: > Questions are > a) what's the difference between Works and Editions?
A work is an abstract entity that represents a piece of intellectual work by an author, independent of particular editions. So, "Hamlet" is a work by Shakespeare. There are many editions of Hamlet, by different publishers, with different ISBNs. The *work* Hamlet links together different *editions* of Hamlet. By the way, modern editions (for the last 50 year or so) are usually identified by an ISBN. For a full explanation of the distinction between work and edition, the canonical reference is the FRBR document: http://www.ifla.org/publications/functional-requirements-for-bibliographic-records > b) can anyone elaborate the file formats for me? I'd also like to see a published definition of the schema used. But like any real-life semistructured database built from diverse sources, the OL DB is full of exceptions, I've noticed while importing large samples of it into MongoDB. Cheers, Luciano -- Luciano Ramalho / OFICINAS TURING Twitter: @ramalhoorg Autor e professor dos cursos: * Objetos Pythonicos --> http://turing.com.br/oopy * Python para quem sabe Python --> http://turing.com.br/ppqsp _______________________________________________ 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]
