I'm trying to understand how much flexibility there is or will be in
the BibFrame definitions of Work and Types of Work. Drilling down into
the explanations of Work and Types of Work I can see that in BibFrame
Works are Resources, and therefore can have the properties of
Resources as well as properties specific to Works, and that Types of
Work (examples: Dissertation, Cartographic) include more specific
properties as well, in addition to the properties of Resource and
Work.
Could the Types of Work be defined on a different level--less format,
more FRBR? Could FRBR Work and FRBR Expression be types of the
BibFrame Work, with the latter taking over the Language property, or
must all BibFrame Works include the property Language, regardless of
type? Could Integral Work and Aggregated Work (another distinction
from FRBR) be defined in BibFrame as Types of Work? Can a BibFrame
Work description specify more than one Type? I think we learned with
MARC format integration that exclusive format definitions can be
problematic.
Are these the sort of things that an RDA profile for BibFrame could
specify? Are these useful questions to be raising?
Stephen
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Stephen Hearn, Metadata Strategist
Technical Services, University Libraries
University of Minnesota
160 Wilson Library
309 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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