ICS-FORTH Workshop October 23, 2006 Heraklion, Crete Folio Metaphysics Richard Urban Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ICS-FORTH Workshop October 23, 2006 Heraklion, Crete

Background Collaborative Digitization Program Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices “part of” complex work “part of” collections “part of” projects

Visual Resources Association www.vraweb.org VRACore 4.0 (December 2005) VRACore 4.0 XML Schema Works, Images, Collections

<work refid="5" source=“VRA Sample"> <relationSet> <display>Lindisfarne Gospels</display> <relation type="part of" refid="4" source=“VRA Sample">Lindisfarne Gospels</relation> </relationSet> </work>

Image Work Image Image Images from VRACore sample set.

Work Image Work Work Image Work Image Images from VRACore sample set.

Topics in Knowledge Representation Work Parts of Works Expression Parts of Expressions Manifestation Parts of Manifestations Item Parts of Items Winston, Chaffin & Hermann

Whole Folio Stuff-Object ~F ~H ~S Component - Integral Object Place-Area ~F H ~S Component - Integral Object F ~H S

Gerstl & Pribbenow Where to go from here? No WCH Types for: F, H, S ~F, ~H, ~S Where to go from here? Other mereologic frameworks?