Blog mentions
Today, a few pointers to some posts on other weblogs.
- David Weinberger’s Miscellaneous Hamlet (from 31 December 2006) was pointed out in that ngc4lib thread I posted about a few days ago. “There are three established editions of the play, so when you want to point to Hamlet, which one do you point to? Not to mention the various publishers, editions, and versions, from large print to translations to ones with modern spellings to parodies to coloring books.” FRBR can solve that, but Weinberger makes good points about fuzziness and how much this is a kind of that. I listened to a couple of Weinberger’s talks that Tim Spalding pointed to in Prolegomena to a Review of Everything is Miscellaneous and was very interested.
- Speaking of Tim Spalding and LibraryThing, its users are doing an average of 2,000 work-combination actions a day. “That’s not even works combined, which is higher since a combination will have at least two and and high as twenty. It boggles the mind.”
- darth_libris’s FRBR Fun (from 30 January): “My problem with FRBR discussions is that it is actually impossible to create an expression without *also* creating a manifestation and an item. The live performance of Beethoven’s 5th constitutes an item, as well as being an expression/manifestation.” It is possible, actually. The music floating through the air is the expresion: “the intellectual or artistic realization of a work in … musical” form, “the particular notes, phrasing, etc. resulting from the realization of a musical work” (says the Final Report). It’s only if that performance is recorded that manifestations and items come into existence.
- John Fudrow’s FRBR: Creating Complexity or Simplifying Creation? (from 16 February). “The largest gray cloud on the FRBR horizon would seem to be the dollar signs flashing before our eyes.”