1. 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

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

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

4. <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>

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

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

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

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

9. 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?