On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Roy Tennant wrote:
> As the hapless keeper of the list in question (at
> http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Metadata/structuralist.html ), I leap to
> weakly defend it (weakly because I'd be delighted to have someone come
> forward with something better). The term serial and its subcategories of
> journal, magazine, newsletter, newspaper is there simply because we must
> have a way to catalog a resource of that type *as a whole*. If I want to
> create a Dublin Core record for an electronic journal, how would I do it
> otherwise? I respect Rebecca's opinion enough to know she must have a
> point about mixing apples and oranges, but I'm too dense to see it. To me
> I still have a need to identify a journal as something quite different
> than the proceedings from a conference or the minutes of a meeting. If
> this should be done in some other DC element, please someone help me out.
> Thanks,
> Roy
You did a fine job on the list.
I guess it's just that term "serial" that implies publication pattern to
me. Electronic journal is more palatable, but then you have to distinguish
(I guess) between journal, newletter, etc., a distinction not worth
spending time on. You have a good point. It's related to what Diann
brought up as a type that she called collection (that was on the
type/format working group list).
Rebecca
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