Subclass of:

• crm:E73 Information Object

Scope note:

This class comprises the intellectual or artistic realisations of Works in the form of identifiable immaterial objects, such as texts, poems, jokes, musical or choreographic notations, movement pattern, sound pattern, images, multimedia objects, or any combination of such forms. The substance of F2 Expression is signs.

An Expression is the outcome of the intellectual or creative process of realizing a Work. Subsequent expressions conveying the same work may be created over time.

Expressions do not depend on a specific physical carrier and can exist on one or more carriers simultaneously. As far as bibliographic practice is concerned, only instances of F2 Expression that are externalised on physical carriers other than both the creator’s brain and an auditor’s brain are taken into account.

The form of F2 Expression is an inherent characteristic of the F2 Expression. Differences in form imply different Expressions (e.g., from text to spoken word, a transcript of a recording). Similarly, differences in language or means of performance imply different Expressions (e.g., translations or arrangements for different instruments). Thus, if a text is revised or modified, the result is considered to be a new F2 Expression. While theoretically any change in signs will result in a new Expression, conventionally the context and use will determine the rules for distinguishing among expressions.

An instance of F2 Expression which includes spoken or written text may be multiply instantiated as an instance of E33 Linguistic Object. This allows for the association of the E56 Language of the text with the instance of F2 Expression by using the property P72 has language (is language of).

Examples:

the German text of ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (as translated by Elisabeth van Bebber and published with the title ‘Mord im Orientexpress’)

the narrated English text of ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ by David Suchet

the English text of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ translated by Robert Fagles

the English text of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ translated by Richmond Lattimore

‘Dewey Decimal Classification’, 23rd edition (DDC23) [English edition]

‘Classification décimale de Dewey’, 23e édition [French translation of DDC23]

the performance of Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’ by Angela Hewitt at St. Thomas Church (Leipzig Germany) in November 2020

the performance of Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’ by Angela Hewitt in Christuskirche (Berlin) on 14-17 December 2015

the musical score for Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’ (as published by Balthasar Schmid in 1741)

Beethoven’s original score for Symphony No. 9 (as expressed by Beethoven’s original hand-written manuscript held by the Berlin State Library)

the score for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 that was edited by Jonathan Del Mar and published by Bärenreiter in 1997

the original cut of Hitchcock’s movie ‘Psycho’

the censored version of Hitchcock’s movie ‘Psycho’ that was released in Britain (with stabbing sounds and visible nude shots removed)

the first plaster version of ‘The Thinker’ sculpture made by Auguste Rodin around 1881

large scale version of Auguste Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’ created at the Fonderie Alexis Rudier in 1904

the text of the abridged English version of ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (as published by HarperCollins)

the original text (in English) by Agatha Christie for her novel ‘Murder on the Orient Express’

In First Order Logic:

• F2(x) ⇒ E73(x)

Outgoing properties:

• lrmoo:R5 has component (is component of) (0,n:0,n) → lrmoo:F2 Expression
• lrmoo:R15 has fragment (is fragment of) (0,n:0,n) → crm:E90 Symbolic Object
• lrmoo:R75 incorporates (is incorporated in) (0,n:0,n) → lrmoo:F2 Expression
• lrmoo:R76 is derivative of (has derivative) (0,n:0,n) → lrmoo:F2 Expression

Incoming properties:

• lrmoo:F1 Work → lrmoo:R3 is realised in (realises) (1,1:1,n)
• lrmoo:F3 Manifestation → lrmoo:R4 embodies (is embodied in) (1,n:1,n)
• lrmoo:F2 Expression → lrmoo:R5 has component (is component of) (0,n:0,n)
• lrmoo:F28 Expression Creation → lrmoo:R17 created (was created by) (1,1:1,n)
• lrmoo:F12 Nomen → lrmoo:R35 is specified by (specifies) (1,n:1,1)
• lrmoo:F1 Work → lrmoo:R73 takes representative attribute from (bears representative attribute for) (0,1:1,n)
• lrmoo:F2 Expression → lrmoo:R75 incorporates (is incorporated in) (0,n:0,n)
• lrmoo:F2 Expression → lrmoo:R76 is derivative of (has derivative) (0,n:0,n)