Karen Coyle said: >This then seems to me that there will be many expressions that each >have only one manifestation.
Somewhere I read that most authors in library catalogues only write one work, that most works have only on expression, and that most expressions have only one manifestation. Even where multiple expressions and manifestions exits, few collections would have these multiple expressions/manifestatons represented in their collections. This elaborate structure is being created for a minority of library resources. If motion picture remakes are judged to be new works, not new expressions, the number drops even further. It is difficult for me to see "bits", such as an introduction, footnotes, etc. added to an expression's manifestion as separate work(s). These "bits" have no separate existence or utility. It seems better to me to think of augmented manifestations (or editions as we used to say). As for complilations, they themselves can be seen as works/expressions/manifestions, with their constituent parts being treated analytically. Too bad RDA dropped entry under compiler, and MARC21 did not adopt UKMARC's 248. We seem determined to make things difficult for ourselves. Our theorizing has gotten out of hand, and has little relevance to how we should be constructing bibliographic records, nor more importantly, library catalogues. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([email protected]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
