6. User Tasks

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Definition of users (p. 50, bullets at top of page)

FRBR has a much broader definition of users "The study assumes that the data included in bibliographic records produced for national bibliographies and library catalogues are used by a wide range of users: readers, students, researchers, library staff, publishers, distribution agents, retailers, information brokers, administrators of intellectual property rights, etc." (FRBR, p. 8, 1st paragraph). Would a broader definition also be useful here? Glennan 5/8/07

I am having difficulty interpreting the mapping in Table 4. Unlike FRBR, there is only one symbol, a black box. In FRBR the symbols in Table 6 mean "high value", "moderate value", "low value". I don't see any explanation in FRAD what the black box means. Does it mean something like "of value" as in "The 'known by' relationship is of value to the user task 'find' for the entity 'person'"? The paragraph after the user tasks on p. 50 offers no explanation at all either to what the black box means or how the Working Group arrived at its conclusions (whether to place a black box in the grid or not). Assuming it means "of value," I wonder why the "known by" relationship is not thought to be of value for identifying, contextualizing, and justifying the entity "person"? At least for justify, the "known by" is the supreme reason justifying the name--"documenting the authority record creator's reason for choosing the name or form of name on which a controlled access point is based." That particular relationship--the name by which the entity is "commonly known"--is the most important justification of all. So why isn't there a box in the intersection of "justify" to that relationship? Why aren't there boxes in the intersection of "contextualize" to attributes like "gender," "place of birth," "place of death," "affiliation," "field of activity," etc.? All of these contextualize: "place a person, corporate body, work, etc., in context ..." I'm not going to analyze the whole table, but I'm pretty clueless as to what the Working Group was thinking when it assigned black boxes to some intersections on the table and not to others. Bob Maxwell, May 7, 2007

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