Mac:
Heidrun said:
Now I even wonder: Can an aggregating work have a title?
Certainly they can:
Shakespeare's Bonnets
Tennessee William's Plays
Faulkner's Short Stories
Conference on Biophysics
Equal Marriage Rights Symposium
Papers on Fracking
Sure, but these are plain simple _aggregate_ works, and not
_aggregating_ works in the sense of the Working Group. Remember their
claim: "The process of aggregating the expressions itself is an
intellectual or artistic effort and therefore meets the criteria for a
work." (p. 5). And in the "Understanding FRBR" example they say: "The
aggregating work encompasses all of the intellectual effort required to
identify the topics to be covered, solicit the authors, edit the
manuscripts, write the introduction, compile the index and other related
activities." (p. 13). The aggregating work therefore does not refer to
the _creation_ (e.g. a collection of essays or plays), but to the
_process_. Thomas said in one of his posts: "The aggregating work and
aggregating expression are entirely new entities that refer to an effort
of arrangement, and not the collective effort for the individual works."
Now: Could the "effort of arrangement" be something that has a title? I
doubt it.
Conference proceedings (i.e. papers) issues both independently and as
an issue of a journal would have two expressions it seems to me.
If it's exactly the same text, then to me these are two manifestations
of the same expression.
Heidrun
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Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A.
Stuttgart Media University
Faculty of Information and Communication
Wolframstrasse 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi
