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Bob,

I hadn't noticed the changed definition, but I absolutely agree: The new definition is much less clear than the original one. Not only is it much more abstract (intentionally so, I assume), but there is no longer a reference to the work. Probably, this is supposed to be covered by the relationship LRM-R2. But still, it makes it seem as if an expression could exist on its own, without a work in the background.

Heidrun



On 24.03.2016 Robert Maxwell wrote:
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I am a bit startled by the new definition of “expression” in FRBR-LRM: “A distinct constellation of signs conveying intellectual or artistic content.” (LRM-E3, p. 15). What does this mean? I have a hard time imagining this phrase meaning anything to someone who asked the question “what is an expression?” or even to people who already know what an expression is. The original FRBR definition “the intellectual or artistic realization of a work in the form of alpha-numeric, musical, or choreographic notation, sound, image, object, movement, etc., or any combination of such forms” is not flawless and does require a bit of thinking, but at least it does make sense (the word “realization” is key, when a work “becomes real” it has an expression). I’m not sure “constellation of signs” conveys the idea. I suggest that the new definition isn’t really an improvement. In fact it makes the concept, which is important to the model but already somewhat tricky but not impossible for people to understand, much more obscure.

 

Bob

 

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