I took the same professor for cataloging and classification as I did for my Information Organization and Analysis. As such, I'm doing a large number of small assignments, to make sure that I understand the subject material, as it builds from week to week.
Assignment 1: FRBR/FRAD
1. Using an example that makes sense to you, explain FRBR Group 1 entities (WEMI). (35 points)
In
FRBR, Group is abbreviated as WEMI:
Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item. Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice (1976) is a Work. This Work can be Expressed as an (unabridged)
e-book or as a print book. A Manifestation
of the e-book is the one released on CD in 2002. Two Manifestations of the print book are the
1976 Hardcover edition, which I can buy from Amazon, and the 1993 paperback
edition (the 48th printing of the 1977 paperback edition). I own this Item (this specific edition of
the specific expression of the specific work).
2. Using the same example that you did for question 1, explain FRBR Group 2 and 3 entities and how they might relate to the Group 1 entities and to each other. (30 points)
In
FRBR, Group 2 entities are People and Corporations. Using my copy of Interview With The Vampire as an
example, Group 2 entities would be Anne Rice, me, Ballentine Books, Random
House, Knopf Publishing, and Edward McKay. Anne Rice created the Work Interview With The Vampire, and I bought the specific Item. I bought this copy from
Edward McKay, a used book store in Winston-Salem. Ballentine Books published
the print book (Expression),
and Ballentine Books is owned by Random House. This specific Item was published in
cooperation with Knopf publishing, which means that the Ballentine Books
editions not published in cooperation with Knopf would be different Manifestations of the
same Expression.
In FRBR, Group 3 entities are the subjects of the Group 1 and/or Group 2 entities. Group 3 subjects can be concepts, objects, places, events, Group 1 entities (ex: a critique of the homoerotism in Interview With The Vampire),[1] or Group 2 entities (ex: a biography of Anne Rice). As this is a fiction book, there are no Group 2 subjects. In this example, Group 3 subjects would be subject heading such as “Vampires,” concepts such as “love,” “(bad) mentorship,” and “parenting,” places such as “New Orleans” and “Paris,” and event events such as “Mardi Gras” and “Industrialization.”
In FRBR, Group 3 entities are the subjects of the Group 1 and/or Group 2 entities. Group 3 subjects can be concepts, objects, places, events, Group 1 entities (ex: a critique of the homoerotism in Interview With The Vampire),[1] or Group 2 entities (ex: a biography of Anne Rice). As this is a fiction book, there are no Group 2 subjects. In this example, Group 3 subjects would be subject heading such as “Vampires,” concepts such as “love,” “(bad) mentorship,” and “parenting,” places such as “New Orleans” and “Paris,” and event events such as “Mardi Gras” and “Industrialization.”
3. List the user tasks for FRBR and FRAD. How are the user tasks similar and different? Why do these similarities and differences exist? (35 points)
In
FRBR, the user tasks are “Find,” “Match,” “Select,” and “Obtain.” In FRBR User
Tasks, one searches for a keyword (ex: Anne Rice), and “finds” a long list of
books by and about Anne Rice. One then “matches” to formats (ex: books by Anne Rice), and “selects”
a specific item (ex: Interview With The
Vampire by Anne Rice), and “obtains” the call numbers for the item, which
allows the user to go and collect the item that they were looking for. FRBR is
aimed at patrons, and is intended to help them search for and find a specific
item.
In
FRAD, the user tasks are “Find,” “Identify,” “Clarify,” and “Contextualize.” In
FRAD User Tasks, one searches for a keyword and “finds” a list of items, from
which they “identify” which one they want. “Clarify” is aimed at catalogers, as
it explains where the cataloger got the “authority data” – the information
about an item or person or group. “Contextualize” is for the patrons, as it
puts the “authority data” about a person (usually) into context, historically,
familiarly, or otherwise. For example, the authority data for Irish
singer/songwriter Paul Hewson would show that he is better known as Bono. Or it
would help a patron know where Emily Bronte fits in with her sisters.
The similarities exist because both FRBR and FRAD exist to help the patron search for a specific item. The clarity of the metadata, the detail in the cataloging, helps with that searching. The reason that these differences exist is FRAD is for the catalogers who create the authority data as well as for patrons, so that the patrons know which is the correct item. Once the catalogers have created the authority data (and backed it up with a cited source), that data helps the patron with searching for and finding a specific item.
The similarities exist because both FRBR and FRAD exist to help the patron search for a specific item. The clarity of the metadata, the detail in the cataloging, helps with that searching. The reason that these differences exist is FRAD is for the catalogers who create the authority data as well as for patrons, so that the patrons know which is the correct item. Once the catalogers have created the authority data (and backed it up with a cited source), that data helps the patron with searching for and finding a specific item.
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