If I understand things correctly, Dan's example is actually an RDF triple serving the Work 'Moby Dick'. To address the Manifestation issues raised by Mac, one might have:
URI(Particular Manifestation of Moby Dick) -- URI(has Statement of Responsibility/is the Statement of Responsibility for) -- URI(Herman Melville ; illustrated by Tony Millionaire ; foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick.) The middle URI is taking the place of 245$c, and the initial URI is taking the place of a record control number. The "record" for the manifestation would then be compiled on-the-fly by gathering the cluster of last URIs associated with the first URI. Presumably there would be an RDF triple: URI(Particular Manifestation of Moby Dick) -- URI(is a manifestation of/is manifested by) -- URI (Particular Expression of Moby Dick) and a corresponding RDF triple linking the expression to the work. These would carry forward the controlled headings associated with those levels of the FRBR model, resulting in a complete description of the manifestation with respect to its manifestation specific aspects and the aspects in common at the expression and work level. There are days when I find this elegant and inspired, there are days when I am not certain it will be worth the effort, and there are days when I am just plain scared and intimidated. The challenge and salvation of the RDF solution will be the development of algorithms that will take the bibliographic description of a manifestation and seamlessly extract the corresponding RDF triples for the manifestation level, as well as determine the appropriate linkages to existing URIs for the correct expression or else generate clusters of RDF triples for the expression and possibly work. (All of the above subject to correction by those far more knowledgeable than I am, i.e. "Karen did I get it close to being right?") John F. Myers, Catalog Librarian Schaffer Library, Union College 807 Union St. Schenectady NY 12308 518-388-6623 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: J. McRee Elrod Dan Matei said: >I would prefer something like: > >(URI(Moby Dick) -- URI(hasAuthor/isAuthorOf) -- URI(Melville)) -- (who sa= >id so) -- (when) -- (based on what) Mac responded: So based on this we would know we have listed "a" manifestation of Moby Dick. But without an actual transcription of what is *on* the item, how can we match that description with a particular item in hand?
