Folks:
Just catching up with mail after ALA and a short break, so I apologize for
the disjointedness of my replies.
At 09:40 PM 6/24/2001 -0400, Andy wrote:
It is also interesting
>to question whether the scope includes 'discovery of agents', or just
>'description of agents to support the discovery of other kinds of
>resources'? I would disagree with a scope that was wide enough to include
>the first of these.
I think 'description of agents to support discovery' is basically the
ability to distinguish names (variants, fuller forms, perhaps affiliation),
rather than the sorts of elements that relate to contact of agents
(addresses, etc.) Perhaps it's these distinctions that might allow us to
deal with some of this territory rather than the entire description of an
agent.
>It is also worth noting that the scope of the DCMES, which is presumably
>narrower than the scope of DCMI, does not include agents (i.e. one can't
>describe agents using DCMES). This is implied by the fact that the
>DCMI-Type list does not include Agent (or Person), but I doubt if it is
>made explicit in any DCMES documentation - again, I find this slightly
>suprising. Perhaps I'm wrong.
I think this is one of the many things that we "decided" but never
documented. And so it goes ...
Diane
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