What Is a Work? Part 4

Yee, Martha M

doi:10.1300/j104v20n02_02

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“…11 Yee and Kuhagen voice similar concerns, with Yee suggesting that not only could the title and author change, but the intellectual and artistic content could be changed without the serial becoming a new work. 12 She proposes: "As a rule of thumb, consider two items to be the same work if they would be considered interchangeable by most users, or if a user seeking one would actually find the other preferable (as in the case of a later revised edition)." 13 Kuhagen suggests that users' needs in finding and selecting serials would be best supported if serials with changed titles were treated as single works, whereas mergers and splits could be treated as different works.…”

Section: Concept Of a Work In The Library Catalogmentioning

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Identifying Significant Changes in Serials with Title Changes in the Recognition of New Works

Molto¹

2013

Library Resources &Amp; Technical Services

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LRTS 57(3) The purpose of the study was to develop a means for identifying significant subject and function changes in serials with title changes and then to recommend ways to recognize new serial works in cataloging. A sample of serials with title changes was used to classify the underlying subject and function changes found into thirty-five subcategories, which were then each assigned a level (high, medium, or low) according to the evidence provided for a new work. The FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) concept of a work and other FRBR guidelines were used in assigning the levels. It was determined that three high-level subject changes and one high-level function change provided the best evidence of significant change in recognizing a new work. Tests were performed to determine whether multiple medium-level changes could also be used to identify new works. A recommendation was made to modify the RDA (Resource Description and Access) rules for major change in the title proper of a serial to require a new access point only when a significant subject or function change has occurred in one of the four high-level subcategories identified in the study.A dilemma for serials catalogers over the years has been the issue of how to treat title changes. When the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) were revised in 2002, the initial goal was to provide rules requiring new records for serials with title changes only if the serial had become a new work.1 However, the mechanisms developed to recognize new works fell short of this objective. With the new Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloging rules now replacing AACR2 in many libraries, the problem continues, since RDA employs many of the same procedures as AACR2. However, RDA emphasizes the concept of a work because the rules are based on the FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) conceptual model in which a work plays a prominent role. The work is one of four key entities that represent different aspects of a user's interest in bibliographic data.2 A work in RDA is defined, as in FRBR, as "a distinct intellectual or artistic creation." 3 In AACR2, new works are recognized by creating new entries for the manifestations of the new works, 4 whereas RDA represents new works by new access points, along with entries for the new manifestations. 5 The mechanism for recognizing new works in both AACR2 and RDA consists of determining that a major change has occurred, such as certain changes in the words of the title. The major In a previous study, the author developed a preliminary procedure for recognizing new works for serials with title changes, using the FRBR definition of a work and additional FRBR guidelines. 6 The study found that only two kinds of changes, namely, subject changes and function changes, provide the evidence needed to recognize a new work. The FRBR requirement that a significant change must occur was not addressed, this being beyond the scope of the study.There is a need to address the issue of significant ch...

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Section: Concept Of a Work In The Library Catalogmentioning

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Identifying Significant Changes in Serials with Title Changes in the Recognition of New Works

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2013

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“…Yee characterizes this limitation as a series of precarious stepping stones-if any of the titles, or stones, is missing within the catalog being searched, the serial run cannot be assembled. 79 This practice is paralleled within name authority records (including series headings). The records contain one 1XX field and, potentially, one preceding 5XX entry and one succeeding 5XX entry.…”

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“…85 In her contribution to the 1995 ALCTS preconference, "The Future of the Descriptive Cataloging Rules," and again in her paper for the 1997 Toronto Conference, Yee sounds a more explicit call for a single shared catalog. 86 The real problem with all linking devices in a shared cataloging environment, however, lies with the shared cataloging environment itself . .…”

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“…If the development of the information superhighway eventually means cheap and ubiquitous telecommunication, could we not begin to envision a single catalog, accessible to all users, and updatable by all catalogers? 87 The practical appeal and cost-effectiveness of a centralized, shared interface are difficult to ignore. During the serial rule revisions that followed the 1997 Toronto Conference and culminated with the revision of AACR2 Chapter 12 for Continuing Resources in 2002, the goal of just such a catalog was raised several times.…”

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“…87 Exactly what these combined interfaces may offer future librarians will take months or even years to determine. With a single, shared bibliographic utility in place though, the feasibility of this centralized, shared catalog interface remains one possibility.…”

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Serials and Multiple Versions, or the Inexorable Trend toward Work-Level Displays

Allgood¹

2007

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The proliferation of multiple versions for bibliographic works presents numerous challenges to the cataloger and, by extension, to the catalog user. Fifteen years after the Multiple Versions Forum held inThis paper will examine the MulVer problem with regard to serial resources and will consider both the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AngloAmerican Cataloguing Rules (JSC) mandate to revise AACR2 and the growing influence of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model.2 As my conclusions are aimed at current and developing solutions to the MulVer problem, the literature I cite was written largely within the last fifteen years. The paper calls for online public access catalog (OPAC) displays allowing users to more easily understand and navigate the rich, complex collections librarians assemble.Unless otherwise noted, the term "users" refers to external library users rather than to library staff members. For library staff members or internal library users, manifestation-level detail is necessary for ordering, record identification,

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Multiple‐version resources in digital libraries: Towards user‐centered displays

Ercegovac

2006

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Center's (OCLC) WorldCat. The goal of the study is to gauge the characteristics of bibliographic entities under study, to examine types of relationships these entities exhibit, and to collocate bibliographic entities according to the FRBR group 1 hierarchy of entities identified as works, expressions, manifestations, and items. The study's findings show that by assembling bibliographic records into interrelated clusters and displaying these according to the FRBR entity-relationship model, a new navigational capability in networked digital libraries can be developed.

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What Is a Work? Part 4

Cited by 13 publications

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Identifying Significant Changes in Serials with Title Changes in the Recognition of New Works

Identifying Significant Changes in Serials with Title Changes in the Recognition of New Works

Serials and Multiple Versions, or the Inexorable Trend toward Work-Level Displays

Multiple‐version resources in digital libraries: Towards user‐centered displays

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