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
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Rebecca S. Guenther wrote:
> 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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