>
> I thought we had just about exhausted the Resource Type discussion
several
> months ago, but lo and behold, it has surfaced again.
>
> What concerns me is that we seem to have gone back to square one again.
It would help to have an official homepage to advise the status of each
element.
I understand that Jon will provide this. Perhaps the documentation for the
elements
and sub-elements should start with a "mission statement". This will guide
us as we attempt to
have our syntax conform to the mission of DC. This is particularly
important because we
are using mailing lists and collaborative efforts to accomplish our own
goals.
If the mission is, in part, that the elements are understandable for
inexperienced
distributed cataloguers I would recommend that we not use "environment".
Interactive is better. We need to implement this as a pick list.
> One last plea - please let us move on and not spend the next twelve
months
> racing around in circles chasing our tails! We need a solution we can
use
> now!
Agreed.
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Dr.Gary Malet, NLM Medical Informatics Fellow, Family Physician
Oregon Health Sciences University
3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, Oregon
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Co Chair AMIA's Internet Working Group,
http://www-informatics.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/Amia/homepage.htm
"MEDICAL MATRIX"- Hypertext Internet Clinical Medicine Resources
http://www.slackinc.com/matrix
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