Howdy,
Took a look at the new qualifiers document. I'm in general agreement
with it, but here are some detailed comments. Those non-retentive
types on the list probably want to hit "n" now.
>Introduction
s/thirteen/fifteen - at least 3 occurances
>Element: Title (TITLE)
For the AACR2 Scheme, do you want to say something like:
... The TYPE attribute must be specified to indicate if the title
is the main, continued, spine, translated, etc. Type="main" is the
default for this scheme.
(I don't have AACR2 handy, but it might be nice to list the dozen or
so types of titles it specifies.)
> Element: Subject and Keywords (SUBJECT)
You have "keyword" as the only type. Why not have it as one of the
schemes, perhaps even instead of internal?
> Element: Description
You distinguish between URL and URN. Why not use URI? (This comment applies
to lots of other elements as well).
> Element: Creator or Author (CREATOR)
I'm not really wild about the email, postal, .... types. Oh well.
Same thing applies to the publisher and contributor elements.
> Element: Contributor (CONTRIBUTOR)
Do we want to have AACR2 as well as USMARC for Schemes? USMARC would
have the field and subfield indicators, but AACR2 would use simple
text labels. This comment applies to several other elements as well.
> Date (DATE)
You say that ANSI.X3.30-1985 is the default. At a minimum you should
tell implementors to check the value for punctuation such as '/'. I
think we are going to see a LOT of things like
<date>12/25/96</date>
in hand-prepared descriptions. I think you should also advise
catalogers to explicitly indicate the scheme and not rely on it
being the default.
> Type (TYPE)
Enumerate the DCObjects types, don't refer to the document?
Delete the empty "type" heading.
> Format (FORMAT)
delete the empty type heading.
> Resource Identifier (IDENTIFIER)
You say the identifier points to the "original, canonical" version
of the resource. Not all resource will have the original
version as the canonical one. Some will want the most recent one
to be considered canonical.
> Source
s/origination/provenance ?
> Language
Should "Free Text" be the default? Analogous to "Date", I think
we will see a lot of hand-entered tags like
<Language>Spanish</Language>
> Coverage
s/temporary/temporal
Provide an example or two in the Freetext Scheme - e.g. "19'th century France"
or "Italy during the Reformation"
Later,
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