I read through scenario 5 as well as I could (I didn't go through all
of the code, of course.). I don't have many comments, but it did give
me some ideas for some new scenarios to test out some things. See
below.
First, the comments:
1) the scenario lists "place of production" and "publisher". This
may be music bibliography practice, but I would have expected "... of
production" and "producer" or "of publication" and "publisher."
2) the scenario lists copyright date; I suspect this is being used
as the date of publication in the bibliographic record, and therefore
that field should be included in the scenario.
3) I found the order of the FRBR Group 1 statements backwards to how
I think of them, e.g.:
"ex:C frbr:embodiment ex:D"
means that D is the embodiment of C. or perhaps C is embodied by D.
How does one determine the direction? Is it clear in the
registered FRBR relationships? (also, I'm assuming that we're using
the group listed as "FRBR relationships as concepts" - right,
Alistair?)
4) persons are getting coded with language indicators:
ex:I rdf:type frbr:Person ;
rdfs:label "Jerome Kessler"@en ;
I've always thought it was very difficult to assign languages to
names. Do we want to do this? There was a whole committee that was
supposed to figure out languages for authority record fields (Diane,
you and I were on that, weren't we?). It fell apart for various
reasons, not the least of which that there may not be an answer. At
the same time, the authority files are filled with language variations
on names (e.g. "Touen, Makû" for Mark Twain (jp?)). I'm just not sure
what to do about this, but it rang some bells for me.
[Aside: when people want to assign languages to titles, etc., I always
pull out my various examples: Book in English with title: "Marie
Antoinette" - English or French? Same book in French. ? or my favorite
bad restaurant name: "Pasta Cuisine" - Italian? French? or
all-American?)
As for new scenarios, here are three that I'm planning to add:
1. Manifestation that is part of a series; the catalog also has a
record for the series.
2. Manifestation that is part of a series; the catalog does not have
(and doesn't want to have) a record for the series
3. Manifestation that is an expression of a work, but there is no
information about the work (I'll do one that is a translation of a
work for which you have no catalog entry and no info)
As an avowed non-cataloger, I will welcome appropriate modifications
to my scenarios when I get them done.
Thanks,
kc
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