On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Rebecca S. Guenther wrote:
>
> The proposal for agent roles using the MARC relator terms/codes is
> available at:
> http://www.loc.gov/marc/dc/Agent-roles.html
I would support this proposal...
One comment I would like to make is that it appears to me that the
approach recommended here (to use terms from an existing element set
maintained by a third party with non-DCMI namespace) appears to differ
from that suggested by the DC Education application profile see [1] which
states:
<quote>
Interoperability with Other Metadata Schemas: [UBAP 5.2.11] [top]
In part, the notion of audience level can be expressed through the concept
of 'Context' in the IEEE LTSC LOM 'Educational Category'. While the
promise of an application profile that makes possible the integration of
elements from the LOM namespace with those of the DCMI through the use of
a publicly accessible, DCMI registered application profile, movement
toward such an interoperable solution has been painfully slow. Until it is
absolutely clear to the education community that such a solution is viable
in real-world applications, DCMI needs to move forward serving the
education community.
</quote>
I note that there has been exchanges between the DC Library AP WG with
Andy Powell who has suggested possible syntaxes to express the LC relator
terms in various syntaxes.
I would acknowledge that there seems a qualitative difference between
adopting a complete set of terms which form a discrete entity (MARC
Relator list) and plucking one term from an element set (IEEE LOM).
However there does seem to be some form of resolution required (perhaps in
form of guidance from Usage Board?) between the position of DC
Education WG approach and that of DC Libraries WG.
Rachel
[1]http://www.dublincore.org/groups/education/Audience-Level-Proposal.shtml
DCMI Education Working Group:
Proposal for audienceLevel Qualifier for the Audience Element
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