Comments on: Is an e-book a book?

By: Hannah True S.

Hannah True S. — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:54:53 +0000

Thank you. This makes sense. Possibly the
e-book can be considered Avant-Garde due
to it’s micro nature and present cost.
We still are still needing to describe, to access
to share.

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By: zazi

zazi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:45:52 +0000

Hi,

I think the main problem people have, is to abstract the concept of the physical carrier and the digital one. A book or CD (as carrier medium) is on the same level like a PDF or a collection of MP3s. Of course, the kind of producing a copy is different, but the result is the same. It’s maybe just the simple problem that you can’t touch the digital items.
So there is maybe a need for more specific concept definitions of aggregations, but the conceptual model with its levels is alright (I think).

Cheers,

zazi

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:18:58 +0000

I did not either. It’s just something I have been interested in, so I check in from time to time. Also give a look at (1)http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/past/orprojects/frbr/frbr-workshop/report.htm (2) http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1255224 and (3) http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mimno/papers/JCDL2005/f74-mimno.pdf. They’re all connected.

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uberVU - social comments — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:54:21 +0000

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By: Lukas Koster

Lukas Koster — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:36:37 +0000

Bryan, thanks. No, I haven’t looked at that. I was not able to go to the IFLA Milan meeting unfortunately.
Thanks for this.

Lukas

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:33:44 +0000

Have you looked at the work of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates? Take a look at:

FRBR Working Group for Aggregates
http://www.ifla.org/en/events/frbr-working-group-on-aggregates

Their focus:

Investigate practical solutions to the specific problems encountered in
modelling (a) collections, selections, anthologies…, (b) augmentations,
(c) series, (d) journals, (e) integrating resources, (f) multipart monographs, all of which are gathered under the generic term “aggregates.