Subclass of:

• crm:E89 Propositional Object

Superclass of:

• lrmoo:F18 Serial Work

Scope note:

This class comprises distinct intellectual ideas conveyed in artistic and intellectual creations, such a poems, stories or musical compositions.

A Work is the outcome of an intellectual process of one or more persons. Inherent to the notion of work is the existence of recognisable realizations of the work in the form of one or more expressions. Works are often regarded as finished and discrete e.g. when declared as such by the creator of the work or based on the elaboration or logical coherence of its content. However, works may be recognized as existing but unfinished e.g. if the creators deliberately or accidentally never explicitly finished a particular Expression but have left behind partial expressions.

In the absence of explicit information about the initial conception, which is rarely available, the first expression created constitutes witness of the beginning of existence of a Work.

A Work can evolve over time, such as through revised editions. A Work may be elaborated by one or more Actors simultaneously, in parallel, or over time. Additional expressions of a Work can continue to be created over time.

The boundaries of a Work have nothing to do with the value of the intellectual achievement but only with the dominance of a concept.

The main purpose of this class is to enable bringing together intellectually equivalent Expressions in order to display to a user all available alternatives of the same intellectual or artistic content.

Examples:

• Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ [novel]
• Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus’ [novel]
• Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Earthsea trilogy’ [set of novels]
• Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Tombs of Atuan’ [novel which is part of the ‘Earthsea’ trilogy]
• Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ [ancient Greek epic poem]
• Dante’s ‘Divina Commedia’ [narrative poem]
• William Shakespeare’s ‘The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark’ [play]
• Henry Gray’s ‘Anatomy of the human body’ [scholarly work / reference work]
• René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo’s ‘Astérix le Gaulois’ [cartoon]
• The ‘Dewey Decimal Classification’ (DDC) [library classification system]
• The Ordnance Survey’s 1:50 000 ‘Landranger series’ [collection of maps]
• Ludwig van Beethoven’s ‘Symphony No. 9 in D minor’ [symphony]
• Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’ [compositions for keyboard]
• Daniel Humair and Damien Varaillon’s ‘Hommage à John Coltrane’ [musical improvisation]
• John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s ‘I want to hold your hand’ [song]
• François Truffault’s ‘Jules et Jim’ [movie]
• Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ [movie]
• Auguste Rodin’s ‘Le penseur’ (‘The thinker’) [art]
• Pablo Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ [art]
• Katsushika Hokusai’s ‘神奈川沖浪裏’ (‘The Great Wave’) [art]

In First Order Logic:

• F1(x) ⇒ E89(x)

Outgoing properties:

• lrmoo:R1 is logical successor of (has successor) (0,n:0,n) → lrmoo:F1 Work
• lrmoo:R2 is derivative of (has derivative) (0,n:0,n) → lrmoo:F1 Work
• lrmoo:R3 is realised in (realises) (1,1:1,n) → lrmoo:F2 Expression
• lrmoo:R10 is member of (has member) (0,n:0,n) → crm:E28 Conceptual Object
• lrmoo:R67 has part (forms part of) (0,n:0,n) → lrmoo:F1 Work
• lrmoo:R68 is inspired by (is inspiration for) (0,n:0,n) → lrmoo:F1 Work
• lrmoo:R73 takes representative attribute from (bears representative attribute for) (0,1:1,n) → lrmoo:F2 Expression
• lrmoo:R74 uses expression of (has expression used in) (0,n:0,n) → lrmoo:F1 Work
• lrmoo:R77 accompanies or complements (is accompanied or complemented by) (0,n:0,n) → lrmoo:F1 Work
• lrmoo:R79 has representative expression attribute (is representative expression attribute of) (0,n:0,n) → crm:E55 Type

Incoming properties:

• lrmoo:F1 Work → lrmoo:R1 is logical successor of (has successor) (0,n:0,n)
• lrmoo:F1 Work → lrmoo:R2 is derivative of (has derivative) (0,n:0,n)
• lrmoo:F27 Work Creation → lrmoo:R16 created (was created by) (1,1:1,n)
• lrmoo:F28 Expression Creation → lrmoo:R19 created a realisation of (was realised through) (1,n:1,1)
• lrmoo:F1 Work → lrmoo:R67 has part (forms part of) (0,n:0,n)
• lrmoo:F1 Work → lrmoo:R68 is inspired by (is inspiration for) (0,n:0,n)
• lrmoo:F1 Work → lrmoo:R74 uses expression of (has expression used in) (0,n:0,n)
• lrmoo:F1 Work → lrmoo:R77 accompanies or complements (is accompanied or complemented by) (0,n:0,n)
• lrmoo:F31 Performance → lrmoo:R80 performed (is performed in) (0,n:1,1)