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On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Rebecca S. Guenther wrote: > In the library world we are used to using authority records to provide > control for the use of certain headings which fall under the category of > "event" (conferences, meetings, etc.). We also set up a MARC Community > Information Format to provide such information for these clearly > non-bibliographic entities (non document-like objects). I tend to agree > with Sigge that we are better off dealing with document-like objects and > have other name spaces or vocabularies deal with these relationships. Actually, having said all this I regret using the term "document-like object" since we have never usefully defined it. I didn't mean it in the sense of "text" and wasn't implying that DC would be limited in that way. Rebecca