[DCRM-L] Color content as attribute of expression

[Noble, Richard]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Deborah J. Leslie <DJLeslie at folger.edu>
wrote:

> We believe there might be some circumstances in rare materials in which
> color is properly a manifestation-level attribute. Stay tuned.


​The governing concept in this case, certainly for rare materials, but
worth having some consciousness of outside that technical context, is
"ideal copy": an awareness that there may be a difference between the thing
in hand and the thing that its makers would have been content to put in our
hands.

This has its interesting liminal cases: compare, for instance, a
hand-colored copy of an illustrated book never put into commerce as such
(single-expression maifestation/item, for sure), and the frequently
encountered publication sold "penny plain, tuppence coloured". We might
treat the latter as multiple expressions *if* we were resetting the entire
bibliographical universe; but at this point, how do we correctly match the
existing holdings attached to a single WorldCat master record in order to
differentiate the pennies from the tuppennies?

Once again, we can't just "FRBRize": there's nothing new about FRBR--its
terminology is simply a non-carrier-specific distillation of
bibliographical principles, and its proper application requires actual
bibliographical knowledge in addition to *a priori* theorizing about
content and carrier.


RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
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