A good old question about our term definitions. Hurrah! :-)
See below....
This question has been passed to me, but I guess it's a question of the definition of our class dcterms:BibliographicResource (used as domain of dcterms:bibliographicCitation)
Does this class include events?
If I recall correctly, this was one for which we couldn't find a good "off the shelf" definition
See e.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Abibliographic
But I don't think there was any intent to include events?
Even accepting the notion that a bibliographic resource should be anything that is the subject of a bibliographic citation, does that really include events?
http://www.google.com/search?q=define:bibliographic+citation
All of those definitions seem narrower than that to me.
Over to the librarians :-)
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Diggory [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tue 6/3/2008 8:26 PM
To: [log in to unmask]; Pete Johnston
Subject: Re: minor problem
On Jun 3, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Frederick Giasson wrote:
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> Hi Bruce,
>
>>> But this is not the case as long as I know. I want to find the
>>> connection that lead you to assert that these three classes are
>>> equivalent :)
>>>
>>
>> I define a BibliographicResource as anything that can go in a
>> bibliography. Therefore, it is not limited to documents.
>>
>
>
> Well.... dcterms define it has: "A book, article, or other documentary
> resource."
>
>
> So, this comes down to: what is a "documentary resource"
>
>
> Can an event be a documentary resource?
I think this is one that the DCMIi community should clarify and make
more applicable. I personally think a BibliographicResource should
be any "Resource" that ones system would want to represent as
"citable" in a Bibliographic citation, regardless of its "form" or
"type" (except for being of type "BibliographicResource").
I've cc'd Pete Johnson in hopes of some clarification in this area.
I suppose if your system was designed to represent Events as things
that could be cited, then, an Event could be a BibliographicResource.
-Mark
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