FRBR comes to LibraryThing?!

Good Lord I need to sit down. Watching LT grow is amazing, wonderful and dizzying. In Work disambiguation and the "Ship of Theseus" Tim describes his solution to the problem of lumping what, in FRBR-speak, would be called manifestations (I hope, lest I lose lib cred):

The new system introduces a robust concept of "work." On the database side this means a special "works" database, where each work has a title (the most common title of books belonging to the work). It is the way whereby most LibraryThing books can acquire LCCNs, Deweys and other cataloging information. It will allow users to discuss books—for example, on a forum—without worrying that they were only talking to people who had the same edition they did.

Furthermore:

...it will allow ordinary people to participate in the sacred act of cataloging, combining and splitting books from works as they see fit. This has never before been done before. It's Wikipedia for book cataloging.