EDItEUR and the International ISTC Agency(IIA) have developed an ONIX format to be used by ISTC registrants and Registration Agencies for two-way communication related to the processes of registering a new ISTC work or amending the metadata associated with an existing ISTC work record. A draft version of the format (the IIA recently approved the publication of Version 1.0) can now be found on the EDItEUR website as ONIX ISTC Registration Format <http://www.editeur.org/106/ONIX-ISTC-Registration-Format/>
This is an important milestone for practical work identifiers.
I have two questions.
1. I have not been following ISTC closely for some time, and as I look at its web pages I wonder What relation the ISTC concept of work has to FRBR?
I recall there was considerable difference from FRBR in how the ISTC effort conceptualized a work. Is that still true. The ISTC about web page says the ISTC reference works not manifestations, but I didn’t find any definition of work nor any reference to a concept like expression.
2. How might ISTCs be used in WorldCat to collocate records for the same works?
Fine Flowers
18 hours ago
From the FRBR list.
ReplyDeleteTo refresh my memory about the ISTC, I found it useful to re-read Patrick LeBoeuff's excellent presentation for the 2005 FRBR Workshop (especially as he included his narrative in the "Notes Page" view): www.oclc.org/research/events/frbr-workshop/.../leboeuf/ISTC.ppt
Ed Jones
Assistant Director, Assessment and Metadata Services National University Library