Bibliographic Structure

A Frame of Reference for Bibliographic Relationships

Abstract

Information about bibliographic relationships is essential to connect bibliographic entities in retrieval.This article attempts to give a theoretical rationale on the taxonomy of bibliographic relationships between a given work and its related bibliographic entities.
First, the author examines the bibliographic structure of the document carrying the messages in terms of their bibliographic functions of use and preservation for the most common bibliographic relationships are normally revealed within the document itself.
Then, the bibliographic characteristics of the document are defined from the viewpoint of a pattern analysis of their structural elements.
Finally, as a result of identifying patterns of elements, four dimensions of the bibliographic structue are presented as a frame of reference to categorize bibliographic relationships, together with their subordinate types of equivalent relationships, focusing on common structural patterns revealed within each entity itself.