On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Gregory Pike wrote:
> Gentlemen:
>
> I was looking over your genre types for Dublin Core and I was curious
> what the difference is between an article and a serial? Given the fact
> that most articles in a collection I would think come from a serial of
> some type, is having both subelements redundant? Or were you referring
> to the WHOLE serial? I'm currently implementing Dublin Core in my
> project metadata so any advice you give would be helpful.
>
> Gregory Pike
> National Library of Medicine
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Gregory:
I'm not sure which list of genre types you're looking at (there are
several out there, and there's no consensus on which should be used). I
must say that I have always had problems with listing "serial" and
"monograph" as types. Instead they are patterns of publication: a serial
is a publication issued in successive parts and intended to be continued
indefinitely, and a monograph is one that is complete in one part or
intended to be completed in a finite number of separate parts. Yes, I
admit these definitions are from the Anglo-American cataloging rules, but
to include the two terms on a genre list with terms like "image",
"sound", "text", etc. is mixing apples and oranges.
Rebecca
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