[Web4lib] FRBR and beyond - can you draw it?

[Rob Styles]

missed this at the time, but just spotted it doing a search for  
"semantic" on my mailbox.

There's also a summary of a discussion of this and frbr on NGC4lib,  
nice summary here: http://www.frbr.org/2007/12/20/nice-example- 
illustrated-by-rob-styles

with a picture I drew ;-)

rob

On 27 Nov 2007, at 12:20, Jakob Voss wrote:

> Hi Lars,
>
>> Clear the table, cover it with a really big, blank paper and grab the
>> finest pencil.  This work was written by this author, edited and
>> printed by this publisher.  Then this person translated it to that
>> language.  This actor with a smooth voice recorded an audio book of
>> it.  But the 2nd edition of that audio book contained some  
>> corrections.  The next printed edition had illustrations by this  
>> artist, who had previously also illustrated a work by author B.  
>> Authors A and B did not only have the same illustrator, but the same
>> actor recorded audio books for booth.  After some years, the  
>> illustrator and audio book recording actor teamed up and formed a  
>> company, since they liked to work with the same authors.  Can you  
>> draw that?
>
> I bet this will not come out of libraries but only in the context  
> of the
> emerging Semantic Web and Information Visualization. For the data  
> part see
>
> http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2007/04/15/the-bibliographic- 
> ontology/
>
> It's a shame that IFLA was not able to present an official RDF
> representation of FRBR for years because of some silly licensing  
> issuses, so Richard Newman and Ian Davis just did it on their own.
> I bet like now libraries are running behind the Web 2.0 wave, they
> are currently missing the beginnings of Semantic Web.
>
>> Now imagine we're surfing over this huge paper, as if it was Google
>> Maps.  It doesn't have to be entirely flat.  Subcategories could fold
>> in and out, but at any one point we'd see more than just one library
>> catalog card.  At the center of the screen might be one illustrated
>> edition, but from there we'd see a line going to the illustrator and
>> further on to the next book illustrated by the same person.  If we
>> zoom out a bit, each edition becomes just a dot, but we could get a
>> clearer view of the larger pattern of translations and adaptions.
>> Has anybody done even a demo, a prototype of this?
>
> I don't think so, but information visualization is surely one of  
> the next big things. Is there a master degree program or something  
> like that to dig into it?
>
> Greetings,
> Jakob
>
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