Re: [Fwd: Re: [dev-biblio] document/collection types]
One small question: many articles are published ahead of print. Do they have an ISBN? Or is the ISBN available only after publishing in written format? Does anyone know more exactly how this EPUB works? from talking to the eprints guy at my former university, I understood that it boils down to the following: - a publication is any written work that is available to the public. You may argue about the poster put up in your neighbourhood, but anything freely available via http is definitely published. If you delete your website, it has a status similar to a book out of print. This has *nothing* do to with academic merit, obviously, but think of glossy magazines... - ISBN and ISSN numbers are a system between publishing houses, stockists and book shops to uniquely identify things to be sold. ISBN numbers are allocated to publishing houses in bulk, for a minor fee. Your university library probably has an allocation and could provide you with a number, only that they might be concerned about an efficient procedure regarding requests from book shops if they're not handling the printing etc themselves. Things that have an ISBN number are certainly published, but it would be mistaken to infer the opposite regarding works that do not. You can put an ISBN number on a PDF you put up on your website, but it makes little sense Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Fwd: Re: [dev-biblio] document/collection types]
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]
