Subclass of:

• frbroo:F15 Complex Work
• frbroo:F19 Publication Work

Scope note:

This class comprises works that are, or have been, planned to result in sequences of Expressions or Manifestations with common features. Whereas a work can acquire new members during the time it evolves, Expressions and Manifestations are identified with a certain state achieved at a particular point in time. Therefore there is in general no single Expression or Manifestation representing a complete serial work, unless the serial work has ended.

Serial Works may or may not have a plan for an overall expression.

The retrospective reprinting of all issues of a Serial Work at once, in the form of a monograph, is regarded to be another member of a Complex Work, which contains the Serial Work and the Individual Work realised in the monograph. This does not make the monograph part of the Serial Work.

Examples:

The periodical entitled ‘The UNESCO Courier’, ISSN ‘0041-5278’

The periodical entitled ‘Courrier de l’UNESCO’, ISSN ‘0304-3118’ [French edition of the periodical titled ‘The UNESCO Courier’, ISSN ‘0041-5278’]

The series entitled ‘L’évolution de l’humanité’, ISSN ‘0755-1843’ [a monograph series comprising volumes that were published from 1920 on, and some of which were reprinted, with different physical features and rearranged in a different order, from 1968 on, in a distinct series also entitled ‘L’évolution de l’humanité’, ISSN ‘0755-1770’]

In First Order Logic:

• F18(x) ⇒ F15(x)
• F18(x) ⇒ F19(x)

Outgoing properties:

• frbroo:R11 has issuing rule (is issuing rule of) (0,n:0,n) → crm:E29 Design or Procedure
• crm-sup:P31 has serial work type (is serial work type of) → crm-sup:C33 Serial Work Type
• sdh-int:P20 has issue (is issue of) (1,1:0,n) → frbroo:F3 Manifestation Product Type