Pete, et al.:
I don't think this class should include events. In my experience, what
people want to know about events are very different than what they want
to know about bibliographic citations, which suggest to me that they are
very different beasts.
Most of the time when people want to do this sort of thing it's as a
shortcut for what they should be doing--e.g., treat an event as a first
class resource.
Diane
Pete Johnston wrote:
> 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:
>
>
>> 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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