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Some nice things I missed

Posted by: William Denton, 13 January 2009 7:41 am
Categories: Blog Mentions
  • Ed Summers, 10,000 Books and FRBR: “The news about 100,000 books on Freebase got me poking around with curl. I was pleased to see that Freebase actually distinguishes between a book as a work, and a particular edition of that book. To FRBR aficionados this will be familiar as the difference between a Work and a Manifestation.”
  • Karen Coyle, FRBR and Group 2 & 3 Oddities: “This time I was thinking about the way that the entities are used with the subject relationship. But before I get to that, there’s always the publisher to torment me.”
  • Future4catalogers’ Blog, all about RDA.
  • Jonathan Rochkind, Of Identifiers, Matching, OCLCnums, and Umlaut: “Another source of this same data is the OCLC xID services, that would also let Umlaut take an LCCN and figure out what OCLCnum or ISBN or ISSN might also apply to that title, and vice versa. Umlaut doesn’t currently use xID, but should.”
  • Joe Hourcle?, Thoughs on Aggregate Works in FRBR: “Aggregate works are a form of collection, and we can potentially have many different forms of collections. Collections may be aggregated in a single manifestation, or they may exist as a series of independant aggregations.”

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