Andy Powell wrote:
> I suspect that I mainly added the FRBR stuff to cope with the use of
> 'item' in the 'collection description' properties. As redefined, you
> can't have a collection of concepts or a collection of people, only a
> collection of PhysicalResources or a collection of DigitalResources.
>
> I think that is probably what is inteded by the DC-CD WG, but I might be
> wrong.
It was what I intended, based on what Mike Heaney says
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Collection: An aggregation of physical and/or electronic Items.
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and
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Item: The concrete (incorporating physical and electronic) realisation
of Content.
Note: In so far as this analysis is concerned with collections, the
entities Content and Item will be considered only to the extent that
their types and attributes impinge upon Collection Description. In the
vast majority of cases, too, the Items will coincide with what FRBR
calls Items, not Manifestations. 'Item' has been chosen as the most
neutral term in preference to other terms which have been used such as
'Document' or 'Document-like Object'. 'Item' can most easily embrace all
of the concepts of physical and electronic, text and non-text, and human
and natural creations.
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And I argued, therefore, that an aggregation of events (definitely) and
an aggregation of services (probably) were not collections as defined by
Heaney and were out of scope for the DC CD AP, and such classes should
not be part of the collection type vocabulary.
Others in the DC CD WG argued against that - I think really just on the
basis of "intuitive" notions of "collection" and/or on the basis that if
we were basing our collection classes on the DCMI Type list then we had
to take the whole list, rather than on a reading of Heaney - and (in a
moment of weakness) I caved in to the tyranny of democracy.
Though I have continued to think they were wrong and I should have stood
my ground, so I may go back and fight that out again in the WG ;-)
Pete
[1]
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0411&L=dc-collections&P=172
[2]
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0412&L=dc-collections&P=60
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