Another one on Renear and Choi
A chap who just goes by “Steve” posted Abstractness, FRBR on the Circulatable blog, in which he comments on that paper by Renear and Choi that people have been pondering.
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A chap who just goes by “Steve” posted Abstractness, FRBR on the Circulatable blog, in which he comments on that paper by Renear and Choi that people have been pondering.
That posting is a little baffling to me. For one thing the main purpose of
my posting to Karen Coyle’s blog to was precisely to emphasize that the argument quoted there — which is against general inheritance and uses the property “is abstract” — is not intended to apply to the more plausible versions of inheritance which are the real focus of our paper, as those versions of inheritance are limited to named attributes only … and “is abstract” is not a named attribute. That is the point we made in the paper and it was the whole purpose of the clarification to make sure that no one inadvertently concluded that we thought that this argument got any traction on more plausible versions of inheritance for FRBR, versions limited to named attributes. And note that the scope of that argument is two very short paragraphs in a long paper; and rhetorically they are located as an aside within a purely expository section. The remainder of the paper is then devoted our principal arguments about attribute inheritance, using FRBR attributes such “language” and “typeface” as examples.
– Allen
Comment by Allen Renear — 10 January 2007 @ 1:08 am[I'm posting here since Circulatable seems restricted to registered participants and I can't figure out how to register]