RDA and FRBR - Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA

Slide 6Vocabulary•“Book”–Who translated?(expression)–Who wrote?(work)*When we say ‘book’ we could use the word as in “who translated that book?” – we may havea specific text in mind in a specific language or a translation – FRBR calls this expression.*When we say ‘book’ as in “who wrote that book?” - we could also mean a higher level ofabstraction, the conceptual (intellectual or artistic) content that underlies all of the linguisticversions, the basic story being told in the book, the ideas in a person’s head for a book –FRBR calls this work.When you hold a book in your hand – it’s all 4 of those entities – an example of amanifestation (which is what we catalog and describe - to be re-used by other libraries oranyone anywhere and it embodies a particular expression of a work.We want our language to be more precise to help with future system design and futurecataloging rules. On Monday and Tuesday this week the RDA Outreach Group organized ameeting with representatives from several metadata communities – mostly Dublin Core, andalso IEEE/LOM, Semantic Web, W3C, and SKOS. Handout with vocabularyrecommendations