Use Case L2: Query if a work is available

[jonathanrobie]

Some questions about https://github.com/distributed-text-services/API/blob/master/userstories.csv#L2

• how does the user identify a work? Two approaches seem equally useful:
  • navigationally: 'list all works', select a specific work based on metadata
  • based on a known name or identifier
• what does the user get when they "retrieve a work"? what is a "work"?
  • metadata describing an edition?
  • the edition itself?
• Do all searches return collections of 'descriptions', or do searches with unique results simply return the result?

[jeffreycwitt]

Regarding the second bullet point: "What is a work" and what "metadata" should be returned.

Because the CTS model identifies Version with FRBR Expression but makes no mention of a FRBR Manifestation, you might expect a Work to return a list of available "Versions". But I think Versions should be identified with FRBR Manifestations and Expressions should be reserved for a concept between Works and Versions/Manifestations. See my use case #18

Thus I would like to see a Work return the following properties

• type=work
• label
  • e.g. Adam Wodeham Ordinatio, Moby Dick
    description
• author
• workType (available workTypes should be determined by the available workTypes specified by the WorkGroupType)
  • e.g. Novel
  • e.g. SentencesCommentary
  • e.g. BiblicalCommentary
    citation
  • e.g Epic Poem
• hasExpression
• hasCanonicalExpression
  • since there can be more than one expression, I would like to know which expression is privileged as the default expression to use.
• hasCanonicalTranscription
  • since there might be a lot of levels between an abstract work and a canonicalTranscription of that work, I would like to see the Work list a privileged transcription that client can default to.

BTW: I tried to provide an answer to the kind of metadata I would like to see accompany each CTS/FRBR resource. My working list is here https://github.com/jeffreycwitt/scta-ontology/blob/master/SCTAOntologySpec.md

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