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There was an idea in FRBR that elements of description could cascade down
the WEMI structure--things specific the Work (e.g., date of creation, form,
context, relationships to creators, relationships to Work-level subject
terms and classification) could be done once for the Work description and
linked to from descriptions of Expressions of that Work; things specific to
an Expression (e.g., relationships to translators, date of translation,
language, relationships to Expression-level subjects) could be done once
for the Expression description and linked to from descriptions of
Manifestations of that Expression, and so on. Does BIBFRAME have a way to
do this? or does collapsing the FRBR Work and Expression entities into the
BF Work mean that the FRBR Work-specific elements must be repeated (and
maintained) in each BF Work description (i.e., for each FRBR Expression)?


On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Trail, Nate <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The bf:Work does not contain the FRBR:Expression, it links to it. The
> FRBR:Expression is another BF:Work with a few extra properties like
> language that make it a FRBR:Expression.****
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> *From:* Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative Forum [mailto:
> [log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Karen Coyle
> *Sent:* Friday, May 24, 2013 9:42 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [BIBFRAME] Holds and ILL with Bibframe****
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> If a BIBFRAME Work can have an Expression, where is that Expression? To
> "have" it, the Expression needs to have a separate URI, which means that it
> has to be a "thing" -- it has to be its own circle in the diagram. But
> there is no Expression circle in the diagram.
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> I had understood that the FRBR-type elements for Work and Expression were
> both to be entered into the BIBFRAME Work, and the examples seem to show
> that. I'm going to assume that "hasExpression" is not usable, but has not
> been removed from the documentation.
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> On 5/24/13 12:41 AM, Meehan, Thomas wrote:****
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> Laura,****
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> As I understand it, a BIBFRAME Work can be both a FRBR Work and a FRBR
> Expression. The BIBFRAME vocab for Work<http://bibframe.org/vocab/Work.html>defines both
> expressionOf <http://bibframe.org/vocab/expressionOf.html> and
> hasExpression <http://bibframe.org/vocab/hasExpression.html> properties
> so one BIBFRAME Work could be an expression of another BIBFRAME Work.****
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> mailto:[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>] *On Behalf
> Of *Laura Krier
> *Sent:* 23 May 2013 23:50
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Re: [BIBFRAME] Holds and ILL with Bibframe****
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> Jorg, ****
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> Your breakdown here is really helpful for me, but I have a question about
> your conception of how the library-controlled information is handled in
> BIBFRAME.****
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> On May 23, 2013, at 12:12 PM, J�rg Prante <[log in to unmask]> wrote:**
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> - extract all library-controlled information out of the FRBR classes - the
> formal description, the classification, the subject cataloging, the call
> number, the shelf location, authority control information, (maybe also
> descriptions of the library service for access to printed and electronic
> resources, it's not clear right now) etc. Put that also into bf:Instance.*
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> I don't know that I would consider this Instance information under the
> BIBFRAME definition of Instance. A lot of it (call number, shelf location,
> library service) seems more like item information, and might be a library
> annotation. It's related to a specific library's copy of an Instance. ****
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> I'm also still a little baffled about BIBFRAME's use of Work. I can't
> figure out whether it's closer to FRBR's concept of Work (conceptual
> essence) or Expression. Personally, I think something closer to Expression
> would be more important for libraries' goals, and the line seems very
> blurred to me, here. Are we describing a particular expression of a
> conceptual essence, or the concept/idea itself? Or both? I  suppose I will
> have to anxiously await the release of the Creative Work discussion paper.
> (Though your suggestion to go back to the Primer was a very useful one.)**
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