> Does the BIBFRAME 'work' include different expressions (as in FRBR) -
> for example different translations?
-- Yes.
> Eill it be possible to express links between works - e.g different
> translations?
-- Yes. In fact, we need to modify the transformation code to draw this out. We'll let you know once we have done this.
FWIW, the work-to-work relations exist
http://bibframe.org/vocab/translationOf
http://bibframe.org/vocab/translation
Warmly,
Kevin
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> Subject: [BIBFRAME] Translations and BIBFRAME Works
>
> Does the BIBFRAME 'work' include different expressions (as in FRBR) -
> for example different translations?
> Translations may be considered a different "conceptual essence" (albeit
> a related one) but I haven't been able to find this stated explicitly.
> Eill it be possible to express links between works - e.g different
> translations?
>
> Thanks,
> Shlomo
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> Subject: [BIBFRAME] What's an instance?
>
> I tend to think of a Bibframe instance as an edition, but the Bibframe
> instance seems to be something different, mainly in envisioning more
> than one instance per edition, but occasionally more than one edition
> per instance, using ISBN as the determining factor.
>
> Often different bindings of copies of an edition have separate ISBNs,
> but Bibframe says one instance per ISBN. Since binding is normally not
> mentioned in description (using "description" in its usual sense, not
> to mean abstract or summary), how would these instance descriptions
> differ from each other for the trade, library, deluxe, paperback
> bindings? One could have four Bibframe instances for one
> AACR2 or RDA edition.
>
> Often editions are published simultaneously by two or more publishers,
> but Bibframe says an instance can only have one publisher. Sometimes
> these simultaneous publications have both or more publishers given in
> the resource. If both or more publishers appear, surely both or more
> should be included in one instance description, even if each publisher
> assigns its own ISBN? Each ISBN describes the same resource; the only
> difference is who sells it. An instance description with one
> publisher and one ISBN would not match any existing bibliographic item,
> each item having more than one.
>
> Occasionally publishers repeat an ISBN in difference editions. Are
> these two dr more editions to be one instance? Which edition would be
> described? How does one handle both in the same collection with only
> one instance description? Rarely the same ISBN can appear in editions
> of different works.
>
> ISBN is not a safe litmus for determining editions (instances).
>
> How do yearbooks or multivolume sets, with an ISSN for the serial, an
> ISBN for the set, but individual ISBNs for the serial and set volumes,
> fit into this? (Utlas had 021 for analytical ISBNs of volumes within a
> serial or set, a feature we still miss.) While for ebrary, we must
> create a record for each volume of a mutlivolume set or a serial,
> because they can have only one 856$url per record, that is not
> something we would like to do for all. It would clutter up catalogues.
> BTW, can an instance record have multiple PDF URLs?
>
> If these volumes with their own ISBNs are separate instances, are each
> instances of a separate work, or are all volumes instances of a single
> set or serial work? Instance records for these volumes would seem to
> have more in common with MARC item records, than AACR2/RDA MARC
> manifestation records.
>
> The Bibframe provisions seem to me not to accord with messy
> bibliographic reality.
>
>
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