2014-05-28 21:27 GMT+02:00 Joe Filceolaire <filceolaire(a)gmail.com>om>:
Like you I am not clear what the difference is
between
'expression' and 'manifestation' and which of them corresponds to an
'edition' so we may or may not already be using those concepts.
According to the last FRBR 2.0 draft,[1] the "expression" is the
content of a work. It doesn't depend directly from the media it is
possibly displayed on, but it cannot exist without the media, i.e. the
text of a novel.
The "manifestation", on the contrary, is the physical edition of a
work. It is strictly connected to the media it is displayed on, i.e.
the 1834 French edition of Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia, printed
in Paris by Éditeur Incertain.
[1]
http://www.cidoc-crm.org/docs/frbr_oo//frbr_docs/FRBRoo_V2.0_draft_2013May.…
Note that in many cases however the wikidata item
about the work also
describes the first edition so I guess that doesn't comply with FRBR. That
is unlikely to change unless someone comes up with a use case where it
causes real problems.
It depends. It is possible that most of our properties may address the
highest level, i.e. the work itself, but since we are going to have
lots of items regarding specific editions (=manifestations)
Note: I'm currently working at the Italian Institute for Libraries,[2]
and among my tasks there is the "translation" of the UNIMARC-based
data of the National Library Service[3] to FRBR, in order to finally
export all those data into linked open data.
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istituto_Centrale_per_il_Catalogo_Unico
[3]
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servizio_bibliotecario_nazionale
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Luca "Sannita" Martinelli
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita