Ben, I don't know of any that have implemented the FRBR relationships 
*yet*. That leaves the arena wide open, and being the first to do this 
would be very interesting!

kc

On 11/18/12 2:23 PM, Ben Companjen wrote:
> Of course, FRBR! I could have thought of that (and CiTO) :)
> So the thinking of relationships we might need has already been done
> and "only" the thinking of how to record these relationships and
> designing and implementing changes to the interface are left.
>
> Are there other catalogues that show any of the FRBR work relationships?
>
> On 18 November 2012 17:21, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> FRBR provides a set of relationships between works and it would be good
>> to have links that are meaningful, not just "link." "Cites" isn't one of
>> them, but there are citation vocabularies. If there were more lists in
>> OL those could be mined for statistical relationships. Librarything is
>> able to do this so they can give a small set of the most related books.
>>
>> - my "cheat sheet" of FRBR relationships:
>>     http://kcoyle.net/rda/group1relsby.html
>>     it shouldn't be too hard to make a selection of a small number of
>> these for OL use
>> - the CITO vocabulary:
>>
>> http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/cgi-bin/lode/req.py?req=http:/purl.org/spar/cito
>>     again, a small selection might be useful
>>
>> kc
>>
>>
>> On 11/18/12 5:22 AM, Ben Companjen wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Although I know the developers are mostly working on non-OL projects,
>>> I would like to share a (possibly very old) idea for enhancement of
>>> Open Library: direct links from one work to another.
>>>
>>> It is not an original idea, as most digital libraries for scientific
>>> literature have links from articles to cited/referenced articles or
>>> book chapters. For me as a student it has become a natural way of
>>> browsing the "library".
>>> Today I wanted to look up the Thesaurus of English words and phrases
>>> by Peter Mark Roget and found not only the multiple works (which
>>> should most likely be one work) by Roget, but also "Roget's thesaurus
>>> ..." by other authors - edited versions, perhaps reviews or manuals,
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> I think being able to say "works A and B are related, because A is (a
>>> review of | a manual to | partly based on | ...) B" would be a great
>>> addition to Open Library as a catalog. (And I didn't see this idea in
>>> the list of issues on GitHub.)
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>> P.S. Yes, you could add a hyperlink to the work, but if you used the
>>> label to express the relationship between works, it would only make
>>> sense to human users.
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