Huh? Sorry, maybe I misread your email, but you can't have an *optional*
authority. You're either following an authority list or you aren't -
there is no middle course.
I don't actually understand the purpose of 9.4 Keyword. If the taxon
goes in 9.2.2, why bother putting 9.4 in at all? I suppose you could put
alternative words which aren't used in that vocabulary ('non-preferred
terms' is the technical librarianic word for these) in 9.4, but it's a
lot of extra work adding them to each individual record. If you want to
have an index with cross-references or allow searching on synonyms of
controlled terms it would make more sense to hold the information in a
separate file (library systems call these 'authority files'). Of course,
that means when someone else harvests your records they won't get the
cross-reference information, but is their happiness really worth the
extra effort of typing the information in over and over again? If you've
told them where you got the classification from they can replicate it
themselves anyway.
Jane
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-----Original Message-----
From: The CETIS Metadata Special Interest Group
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ben Ryan
Sent: 16 March 2005 16:50
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Question re Keywords in the LOM: what are folk doing?
Bill,
I belive as I stated earlier that there is a need for an optionl
form of authority that could be referenced from the keyword element.
Further, it would be useful for some definitive guidance on the
difference between a textual description and a keyword description if
there is no form of authority referenced. My gut feeling would be that
the content of the keyword element would just be the "key words" from
the description if there is no form of authority involved.
Regards,
Ben
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Dr Ben Ryan
HLSI Software Development Manager
University of Huddersfield
Tel: 01484 473587
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Olivier [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 16 March 2005 16:23
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Question re Keywords in the LOM: what are folk doing?
Thanks folks, I stand corrected (must find time to brush up on my LOM!)
- certainly on the use of Taxon for the taxonomy terms.
But, back to Sarah's point, is there then still a need to clarify the
purpose and/or use of 9.4 Keywords, coming as it does in the
Classification section?
Bill
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