Thanks Diane. That article on RDA/ONIX doesn't seem to include actual
terms, the actual vocabularly. I realize there are plans to 'register'
it officially, but prior to that, can the actual term list be found
anywhere in human-readable format? Or does it not exist yet?
Jonathan
Diane I. Hillmann wrote:
Hi, Jonathan,
Two points as you search out a solution:
1. I agree with your assessment of the current RDA carrier
vocabulary. You might want to look at the RDA/ONIX vocabularies
(still not registered, but there are plans to do so:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january07/dunsire/01dunsire.html).
2. These vocabularies are a start, not a finish: once RDA and the
vocabularies are "published" there's an intention to begin improving
them. The first step was to get the out of the text, the second to
build on the NSDL Registry's vocabulary development tools (some there,
some not yet) to build them up in ways that will be much more useful.
Diane
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Anyone know of any good existing controlled vocabulary for 'format'
or 'carrier' for multimedia materials? I'm thinking of things like
"CD", "DVD", "digital", etc.
The closest I can get is from RDA at
http://metadataregistry.org/concept/list/vocabulary_id/46.html
(thanks Karen and Diane), but it seems _really_ insufficient. As far
as I can tell "audio disc" is used for both a CD and a vinyl disc,
and there's nothing available there for "DVD" at all. Or for
"digital". Although I'm not sure what I mean by "digital", I guess CD
and DVD are both digital, but I was thinking of something to identify
a digital file on a computer network free of particular carrier. I
guess that wouldn't be in a carrier vocabulary at all, after all,
that would be sort of a null carrier. Phew, this stuff does get
complicated quick. Which I guess is why nobody's worked out a good
one yet.
Too bad RDA's is so _far_ from good though. Any others anyone knows
about?
Jonathan
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Anyone know of any good existing controlled vocabulary for 'format'
or 'carrier' for multimedia materials? I'm thinking of things like
"CD", "DVD", "digital", etc.
The closest I can get is from RDA at
http://metadataregistry.org/concept/list/vocabulary_id/46.html
(thanks Karen and Diane), but it seems _really_ insufficient. As far
as I can tell "audio disc" is used for both a CD and a vinyl disc,
and there's nothing available there for "DVD" at all. Or for
"digital". Although I'm not sure what I mean by "digital", I guess CD
and DVD are both digital, but I was thinking of something to identify
a digital file on a computer network free of particular carrier. I
guess that wouldn't be in a carrier vocabulary at all, after all,
that would be sort of a null carrier. Phew, this stuff does get
complicated quick. Which I guess is why nobody's worked out a good
one yet.
Too bad RDA's is so _far_ from good though. Any others anyone knows
about?
Jonathan
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Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu
