_The Nature of A Work_
Adam M. Goldstein
This is the first book devoted exclusively to the concept of the work. The main role of Smiraglia's book is to inform the continuing development of catalogs, search engines, and all sorts of information retrieval tools that will be able to lead people through the maze of editions and revisions and translations of the work. The primary focus of this book is the definition of the work. A secondary focus is the evidence of the patterns of mutation that can be observed among representations of works in the academic canon. The author concludes with a tentative outline of a theory of the work that opens the way for further research. Two appendices contain charts demonstrating the evolution of concepts and definitions of the work and their instantiations. A third appendix contains a summary of the sampling technique employed to generate the data in chapter 5 "Defining the Work in Quantitative Terms" and chapter 6 "The Constitution of Bibliographic Families". This first attempt at bringing together material from both inside and outside the discipline of information studies is a start at explaining the bibliographic relationships and the parameters of work.
- Hardcover: 216 pages
- Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. (August 15, 2001)
- ISBN-10: 0810840375
- ISBN-13: 978-0810840379
Barry Smith
>Hi all
>
>I have just signed up to the mailing list/google group and I am
>getting into the issues and discussions and learning about IAO.
>
>In the meantime I wanted to point to a book that's important for
>library catalogers and also for the FRBR project, _The Nature of a
>Work_, by Richard Smiraglia. I think it speaks to some important
>issues that the IAO will have to deal with if it hasn't already, for
>instance, the relationship between translations and adaptations of
>books and other works.
>
> From
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>>This is the first book devoted exclusively to the concept of the
>>work. The main role of Smiraglia's book is to inform the continuing
>>development of catalogs, search engines, and all sorts of
>>information retrieval tools that will be able to lead people
>>through the maze of editions and revisions and translations of the
>>work. The primary focus of this book is the definition of the work.
>>A secondary focus is the evidence of the patterns of mutation that
>>can be observed among representations of works in the academic
>>canon. The author concludes with a tentative outline of a theory of
>>the work that opens the way for further research. Two appendices
>>contain charts demonstrating the evolution of concepts and
>>definitions of the work and their instantiations. A third appendix
>>contains a summary of the sampling technique employed to generate
>>the data in chapter 5 "Defining the Work in Quantitative Terms" and
>>chapter 6 "The Constitution of Bibliographic Families". This first
>>attempt at bringing together material from both inside and outside
>>the discipline of information studies is a start at explaining the
>>bibliographic relationships and the parameters of work.
>
>And the basic bib info:
> * Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. (August 15, 2001)
> * ISBN-10: 0810840375
> * ISBN-13: 978-0810840379
>
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Haven't looked at Smiraglia's book, but I have looked at
http://ismir2001.ismir.net/pdf/smiraglia.pdf
which contains a sort of summary. I think this piece is full of good
ideas, on both musical works and textual works. But unfortunately
they are rather sloppily formulated, and do not take account of
recent developments on the ontology side.
In case you are interested, I attach a piece with overlapping content
by Werner Ceusters and myself, which will shortly appear in a volume
entitled 'Switching Codes', published by U of Chicago Press.
Barry
Adam M. Goldstein
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>
> Haven't looked at Smiraglia's book, but I have looked at
> http://ismir2001.ismir.net/pdf/smiraglia.pdf
> which contains a sort of summary. I think this piece is full of good
> ideas, on both musical works and textual works. But unfortunately
> they are rather sloppily formulated, and do not take account of
> recent developments on the ontology side.
>
> In case you are interested, I attach a piece with overlapping
> content by Werner Ceusters and myself, which will shortly appear in
> a volume entitled 'Switching Codes', published by U of Chicago Press.
> Barry
> <06-Smith-Ceusters[1].doc>
Thanks Barry for this. I will check out both the upcoming paper and
the Smiraglia piece, that you've linked to above.
Adam
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Adam M. Goldstein PhD, MSLIS
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