Keith, I wrote something a while back that ended up on a couple lists. The core of the idea is that there is not such thing as "work." It is one of the those Platonic ideal forms of which everything else is a reflection: expression, manifestation, item
For instance, according to Plato, when you see a horse, you are not seeing a horse, only a reflection (partial at best) of the ideal horse. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Trickey, Keith <k.v.tric...@ljmu.ac.uk>wrote: > Congratulations Jeff - you are a member of an elite club - those who admit > to not understanding FRBR. When I try and sort it out I am fine with > Manifestation and Item sort of OK with Expression but lost in clouds of > bibliographic and philosophic musings when it comes to Work. > > > > Just a gentle aside - if members of the bibliogrpahic engine room struggle > with this - how is the wider community supposed to make sense of it? > > > > Thank you for your honesty Jeff! > > > > Best wishes > > > > Keith > > Keith Trickey > > Liverpool Business School > > ________________________________ > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [ > RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] on behalf of Jeff Peckosh [ > jpeck...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:13 AM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: [RDA-L] FRBR > > I started panicking over the fact that I still don't understand FRBR. Can > anybody please tell me where I can find a literature that explains what FRBR > is in a simple English? > I also don't know how to relate FRBR with RDA. I would appreciate your help > so much. > > Thanks, > > Jeff Peckosh > Public Library Cataloging Librarian > -- Gene Fieg Cataloger/Serials Librarian Claremont School of Theology gf...@cst.edu
