Dempsey, GBS FRBR
Lorcan Dempsey, of OCLC, posted GBS FRBR on his blog on Monday. GBS stands here for Google Book Search, not George Bernard Shaw. Google’s going to group manifestations into works.
… Dan Clancy, of Google, mentioned that they were pulling together members of work sets in this way at the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control meeting the other day. This is interesting and valuable. Presumably this is happening programmatically.
This will be worth watching.
FRBRizing Shaw would be interesting too, though a smaller project. For example, the play Pygmalion was made into a movie of the same name, then turned into the stage musical My Fair Lady, which was turned into a movie. Shaw drew on Greek mythology for the story, and the Pygmalion myth has been used by other writers and artists. It would be an interesting web of relationships.