[dev-biblio] RE: document/collection types
Book # do we need a separate class for edited books? In years of using EndNote, I solved many problems by having two distinct types, Book and Edited Book (= Edited book of essays by multiple authors, not just a book with an editor). I don't now remember all the difficulties, only that before I had a clear distinction, life was difficult and afterwards life was good. I don't think the problems was limitations of EndNote. I think the basic semantic difference was that in one the author is primary. The book is presented with the author as the person primarily responsible. The book may have had an editor, translator, etc. but they are secondary. In the second, the editor is the primarily responsible person, even though there may be several authors. Maybe you can have just one category, but then you need a flag saying whether author or editor is primary. I vote for having two categories an Authored Book (maybe just called Book, but I think Authored Book is better) and an Edited Book, even though an Authored Book can have editors and an Edited Book can have authors. John - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Matthias Steffens wrote: My tendency has been to think in terms like libraries think; more about the physical form. So a book is always a document, whether it includes separate items or not. Good for me. I agree that clearly defining the words collection and container is important. The lack of a clear definition caused quite some confusion when discussing this stuff at the Zotero forums: Yeah, I know. Let's try this. I'm going to try to link this into the FRBR world view. Document: a written, transcribed, or recorded manifestation of a work typically intended to communicate some intellectual or artistic information or ideas. Collection: a collection of documents By this definition, an edited book or a proceeding both qualify as documents because those objects are themselves manifestations. OTOH, I think one could say they also qualify as collections because they each contain separate documents (unlike, say, an authored book, which only contains sub-documents parts like chapters). We could say, then, that edited books and proceedings are both subclasses of a union of Document and Collection. E.g. they are neither one nor the other, but both. Am not sure this actually helps or simply confuses things more! Bruce - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
