Various blog mentions
- Judith E. Bush’s 80 millionth OCLC Number and a Personal Refresher on FRBR mentions sheet music and a MIDI version of a musical work as different expressions. (She wonders if she’s right about that, and she is, as long as it neither has been put into physical form, in which case they become manifestations and items.)
- Mark Lindner’s And On a Related Topic … Fun in the Classroom describes what sounds like a great class discussion about unexpressed works and unrealized expressions. Then he gets into some thoughts about whether FRBR can handle imaginary works (such as Camel Ride to the Tomb by X. Trapnel or Match Me Such Marvel by St. John Clarke). On top of that, I’d add the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and ask how FRBR can handle works etc. that exist only in parallel universes (which would include all those imaginary works). (I think all cataloguing and classification systems should be able to handle things made by aliens or in parallel worlds. “The library is a growing organism.”)
- Deborah Kaplan’s LibraryThing and FRBR concerns, as you would expect, LibraryThing and FRBR.
- Abigail Bordeaux was at the Open Repositories conference and FRBR came up there, as she reports in Days 3 and 4: Sunny and Sixty. People said “copy” instead of “item.”
- A few weeks ago I mentioned Frédérick Giasson’s Music Ontology and now he’s made version 1.02 available.