Karen Coyle said:
>Could you explain how authority work records would take care of the FRBR
>Group 1 entities? That might be a nifty solution if it could be made to
>work. (There's nothing that says that the FRBR entities must be
>expressed in the bibliographic record, at least not yet.)
Attem
Greetings, Teri.
I serve as a liaison to the ALCTS RDA Implementation Task Force which is
chaired by Dr. Ann O'Neill. I believe she is subscribing to RDA-L, but on the
off-chance she has yet to do so, let me forward your e-mail to her. She can
fill you in on the task force's discussions and
From an optimistic and possibly naive perspective, here's how I see
our terms sorting out.
Entities are conceptual "things" whose primary characteristic is
their uniqueness within a given ontological domain. You can have
multiple names for an entity, but not two "entities" which are truly
the s
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> Martha Yee wrote:
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J. McRee Elrod wrote:
Personal "Names" do not just represent authors. They also represent
editors, translators, composers, artists, directors, actors, criminal
defendants, subjects, etc., etc., etc. And that's just personal
names. There are also corporate, government, ship, building, park,
an
Brenndorfer, Thomas wrote:
Just to add some thoughts about attributes and entities ...
However, if the color "brown" was repeated many times and applied to
more objects other than boxes in our database, then we have a
many-to-many relationship. A more efficient database design would be to
have
Karen Coyle said:
>The "entities" in a model like FRBR are just the "things" you are going
>to work with. For example, in AACR and MARC we have "names"; in the
>former they are headings (authors, added authors) ...
Such over simplification worries me, perhaps because models we have
seen of pos
Martha Yee wrote:
We need a model that recognizes that many works important to our users
are identified by BOTH their authors and their titles. We need a
model that recognizes that the author is more important as an
attribute of a work than as an entity in its own right. Catalogs are
bibliogra
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