Coyle, Thinking About Linking
I continue to catch up, and today point out a thinky piece Karen Coyle posted on her blog the week before last (!): Thinking About Linking.
In the FRBR vision that RDA has embraced, there is something called the “relational/object oriented model.” I have some basic problems with this because I perceive relational and object oriented designs to be quite distinct. This concept of relational/object-oriented gives me one of those “blank brain” moments — when something sounds like it should make sense but I just can’t make sense out of it.
… I can’t shake the feeling that there are at least two distinct kinds of relationships: those that fill in what otherwise would be gaps in a metadata record, and those that inform relationships between bibliographic items. I also wonder about links with and between complex entities.