08.08.2011 10:01, James Weinheimer:
The Worldcat example that I gave before for searching the "work" of
Cicero's "Pro Archia"
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3Acicero+ti%3Apro+archia,
allowing the searcher to limit by format, by other authors (editors),
by date of publication, language, etc. overfulfills those 19th
century FRBR user tasks without the need for redoing, retraining,
reconceptualizing, re-everything. It can be done today, right now for
*no extra money*--just let your systems people devise some queries.
...
If this bit of reality could be accepted, perhaps we could claim
success: "FRBR is now implemented! And at no real costs!" Wouldn't
THAT be nice to claim?!. Then we could move on to other discussions
that would be more relevant to the genuine needs of the vast majority
of our patrons.
Right, AND don't we forget we need consistent data, esp. with the
uniform titles.
Add to this the AACR2 updates done by M. Gorman and Mac, and there is
indeed,
and I think this bears repeating, no urgent need to venture on a big
migration of both code and format. The results of that herculean act
would just
not go far enough beyond what can already be done without it. (Furthermore,
cataloging codes that are not under open access cannot succeed anyway.)
I think VIAF could be extended to include uniform titles. Better
integration of VIAF into cataloging interfaces would then go a long
way towards improved consistency.
For countries, such as Germany, hitherto not under the star-spangled banner
of AACR2, the need for migration can also be obviated by intensified and
clever use of VIAF. [Though this is not an open access tool either, but
there's nothing to replace it, whatever code and format we use.]
B.Eversberg
