Ricky,
Perhaps, there is another reason for abandoning the approach of using
Resource Type as an indicator for interpreting the content of the rest of the
elements. If I understand it correctly, according to this approach, two records
would be needed, one for the original and one for the digitized (or any
intermediate medium). First of all, creating a separate metadata record for the
original would be an additional workload. Secondly, the description of the
original would be separated from that of the digitized. Granted, the two records
could be linked by URL's, but readers must be patient and persistent enough to
go one more step. I think this two-record (or multiple-record) approach is
something that the cataloging community has been struggling to avoid.
Karen
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Subject: Re: Resource Types
Author: "Ricky Erway" <[log in to unmask]> at ~Internet-Mail
Date: 9/22/97 11:25 AM
REPLY TO 09/22/97 10:31 FROM [log in to unmask] "Roy Tennant": Re:
Resource Types
Roy,
I had been in conversations about using Resource Type as an indicator
for interpreting the content of the rest of the elements. For a
painting, if Resource Type = original, then all the other elements
describe the original (Creator is the painter; Date is the date it was
painted, etc.) but if Resource Type = photograph, then the other
elements describe the photo (Creator is the photographer, Date is the
date it was photographed, etc.) and if Resource Type = digital image,
then the other elements describe the image (Creator is the person who
scanned it, Date is the date it was scanned, etc.)
This approach was abandoned because it was clear that there was a
desire for genre identification in Resource Type -- and we didn't
want to propose a use of Resource Type that conflicted with use to
date of that element.
So we still plan to identify the thing being described in Resource
Type and the only thing we've given up on is prescribing a rigid
relationship between Resource Type and the other elements. [It
breaks down anyway when you get to the subject element.]
Ricky
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