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The list of use cases isn't really about fictitious entities--it's about
fictitious creator/contributor relationships, relationships which are
asserted in bibliographic objects for various reasons but known to be false
in real-world terms.  Some of them involve fictitious entities, but not
all.

A list of use cases for fictitious entities should certainly include
subject use.  Presumably in FRBR-LRM, "subject" is not defined as an entity
class because it is co-extensive with res ("LRM-R12, Work / has as subject
/ res").

A separate question would be whether fictitiousness should be an attribute
of res to identify fictitious entities.  I'd argue that it should be.  It
can arguably be combined with any of the categories defined for res and its
subentities, so defining it at the level of res makes sense.

Stephen

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Adam L. Schiff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> These suggestions are all great, but one of the biggest categories still
> not considered is a work about a fictitious character.  The most common
> example could be a work about a legendary character or about a god/goddess
> from mythology.  If the model includes fictitious entities, shouldn't it
> take into account these kinds of entities too?
>
> Adam Schiff
> University of Washington Libraries
>
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> Subject: Re: FRBR-LRM: The bibliographic universe and non-human and
> fictitious agents
>
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:39:22 +0000, Wilson, Pete <
> [log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >My working formulation is that one has an "attributed
> >creator/contributor" relationship and the other has the
> >current "real" creator/contributor relationship.  The range
> >of attributed creator/ contributor relationships would not be
> >limited to "real" entities, though it would include them.
> >Some such formulation for expressing evident but not-real
> >relationships  would be useful in a variety of cases:
> >
> >  *   A work attributed to a fictional entity
> >  *   A work falsely attributed in the past and on some
> >manifestations to a real entity
> >  *   A work attributed to a real person but known to be
> >ghostwritten by another person
> >  *   A work attributed to a house pseudonym shared by
> >many unrelated authors, but also known to be by a
> >particular person.>
>
> Good list, and I like David Proch?zka's suggestion to use "attributed
> name" in
> these cases.
>
> I would emend the second list item to read:
>     *   A work falsely or erroneously attributed to a real entity
>
> That would include cases where the real author has been identified as
> someone
> other than the entity to whom the work has been attributed either on some
> manifestations or in reference sources. Doesn't matter whether the work was
> originally issued with this attribution, or anonymously.
>
> And how about adding another item to the list?
>     * A work attributed to a real non-human entity but known to be the
> intellectual product of a human entity
>
> This would include cases like the one discussed earlier on this (or
> another?)
> forum of "Bo Obama," the presidential dog, who is a real dog but
> manifestly not
> the entity responsible for "Bo confidential" (2009), the work for which
> his NAR
> record was created. (Since the "as told to" entity in this case was "the
> editors
> of MAD Magazine," it's a pretty good bet that the work was a satire, and
> not a
> serious attempt to recreate the reality of Bo's daily life from the canine
> point
> of view.)
>
> It would also cover the case of Tuxedo Hess (lccn no2015080606), who I am
> sure
> is a fine animal, an excellent grazer, and a very good galloper, but if
> truth be
> told, not much of a storyteller, and not terribly eloquent in the English
> language:
>
> 1000 Tuxedo Hess &#450;c (Horse)
> 372  Grazing &#450;a Galloping &#450;a Storytelling &#450;2 lcsh
> 377  eng
> 670  Tuxedo Hess (Horse). Tuxedo's tails [crossed out] tales, 2015:
> &#450;b title
> page (written by Tuxedo Hess) page 4 of cover (a real rescue horse)
>
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> My opinions, not NYPL's
>



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