I've just done a re-read of some parts of FRBR, and discovered some
things that I should have known all along. (See:
http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2008/12/frbr-and-group-2-3-oddities.html )
One of these is that the Group 3 entities (concept, event, place,
object) can ONLY be used as subjects. Therefore:
rda:placeOfProduction ex:E ;
...
ex:E rdf:type frbr:Place ;
rdfs:label "New York" ;
can't use "frbr:Place" because it's not a subject. Place of
publication/production has to be a literal. There is no entity
provided in FRBR for this.
I believe the same is true for "publisher" -- the RDA element is a
string transcribed from the title page, and should probably use the
property:
http://rdvocab.info/Elements/publishersName
We could finesse this, however, by having two elements: one would be
"publisher name" and that would be a literal; the other would be
"dcterms:publisher" -- could that be defined as a FRBR corporate
entity? If not, then we simply won't have a publisher entity in our
examples. I suspect that publisher as an entity does not exist in RDA,
so leaving it as a literal string is probably the correct RDA way.
kc
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