FRBR Workshop, May 2-4, 2005 Subjects in Fiction: the Experience with WorldCat

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FRBR Workshop, May 2-4, 2005 Subjects in
Fiction the Experience with WorldCat

• Diane Vizine-Goetz
• OCLC Research

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FictionFinder

• Brings together expressions and manifestations
  for a given work for 2.6 million bibliographic
  records for fiction
• Uses existing bibliographic, authority, and
  holdings information
• The records are grouped at the work level using
  the OCLC FRBR Work-Set Algorithm

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OCLC FRBR Work-Set Algorithm

• A work set is a group of bibliographic records
  that has the same Author/Title key
• A key is generated for each bibliographic record
• Variant forms of names and titles are converted
  to established forms based on information in the
  OCLC authority file
• Keys are sorted and compared to form work sets

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Fiction Subset

• 2,665,662 WorldCat records (based on fiction
  indicator, text only)
• 1,758,479 work sets
• 1.5 records/set
• 3,866 sets have 20 records or more
• 50,540 sets have 5 records or more

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Family of Works
Original
Russian Translation
Pop-up book
Annotated edition
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Top Sets for Fiction (Records)
Records Key
1,296 defoe, daniel\1661 1731/robinson crusoe
1,267 carroll, lewis\1832 1898/alices adventures in wonderland
971 cervantes saavedra, miguel de\1547 1616/don quixote
828 stevenson, robert louis\1850 1894/treasure island
689 twain, mark\1835 1910/adventures of huckleberry finn
624 twain, mark\1835 1910/adventures of tom sawyer
618 swift, jonathan\1667 1745/gullivers travels
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Top Sets for Fiction (Holdings)
Holdings Key
29,043 twain, mark\1835 1910/adventures of huckleberry finn
26,088 carroll, lewis\1832 1898/alices adventures in wonderland
20,843 twain, mark\1835 1910/adventures of tom sawyer
19,410 defoe, daniel\1661 1731/robinson crusoe
18,566 cervantes saavedra, miguel de\1547 1616/don quixote
18,492 stevenson, robert louis\1850 1894/treasure island
18,123 dickens, charles\1812 1870/christmas carol
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Buizza and Guerrini on Subjects (1)

• The subject belongs to the real world as a
  conceptual representation of the indexer, which
  represents the contents of the work in a
  summarized and formalised way.
• Buizza, Pino, and Mauro Guerrini. "A Conceptual
  Model for the New
• Soggettario Subject Indexing in the Light of
  FRBR." Cataloging
• Classification Quarterly 34 (2002) 31-45.
• lthttp//www.haworthpressinc.com/gt.

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Buizza and Guerrini on Subjects (2)

• The subject is not an entity present in the
  work and extracted from it, nor is it a
  preconstructed entity which exists in its own
  right. It exists as a conceptual nucleus of
  information created in order to mediate between
  the theme developed in the work and the universe
  of cultural and informational discourses which
  originate the requests for bibliographical
  enquiries.

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What work has the following as subjects?

• Adventure and adventurers
• Animals
• Curiosity
• Decision making
• Dreams
• Fantasy
• Girls
• Illusion (Philosophy)
• Imagination
• Innocence (Psychology)
• Rabbits

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Alices adventures in wonderland

• Adventure and adventurers
• Animals
• Curiosity
• Decision making
• Dreams
• Fantasy
• Girls
• Illusion (Philosophy)
• Imagination
• Innocence (Psychology)
• Rabbits

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Buizza and Guerrini on Subjects (3)

• It is a logical entity which persists through
  the various relationships with diverse works,
  independent of the expressions and manifestations
  in which they occur, and allows us to recognise
  and relate the works which present the same basic
  theme and to distinguish them from those which
  develop different themes.

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Subject Entities
Group 1
Group 2
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1 John Attig citing Tom Delsey
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• Current Relationships
• Has as subjects
• Concept
• Object
• Event
• Place

• Additional Relationships
• Is Example of
• Form/Genre
• Covers/Depicts
• Place
• Time

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FictionFinder FRBR

• Summary
• Fiction genres
• Setting
• Subjects

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• Summary
• Is Example of
• Form/Genre
• Covers/Depicts
• Place
• Time
• Has as subjects
• Concept
• Object
• Event
• Place

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Links and References

• John Attig. 2004. New ways of thinking about
  authority control
• http//www.ala.org/ala/lita/litamembership/litaigs
  /authorityalcts/FRBR.ppt
• Buizza, Pino, and Mauro Guerrini. "A Conceptual
  Model for the New Soggettario Subject Indexing
  in the Light of FRBR." Cataloging
  Classification Quarterly 34 (2002) 31-45.
• http//www.haworthpressinc.com/web/CCQ/
• OCLC Research FRBR
• http//www.oclc.org/research/projects/frbr/
• FictionFinder
• http//fictionfinder.oclc.org/