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Re: [RDA] new analysis of scenarios 7, 8, 9, 10; updates to scenarios 1-6

Karen Coyle
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:51:23 -0800

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Alistair Miles
<alistair.mi...@zoo.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> I couldn't find an appropriate property for the "size" of a
> manifestation in scenario 7.

It's "dimensions" -- that's what I should have written there. Sorry.

>
> Otherwise, these four scenarios can be expressed in RDF using the
> current versions of the RDA elements and roles schemas. I.e. I found
> no other major problems.
>
> For "pagination" (scenarios 7, 8) I guessed rda:extentOfText.


I think that's right.

>
> Not directly related to any scenarios, I found that rda:placeOfCapture
> is a sub-property of rda:placeAndDateOfCapture, which doesn't look
> right. This looks like a case where Tom Delsey's "sub-elements"
> pattern got wrongly translated to RDF sub-properties, where rather it
> should be modelled in RDF as an n-ary relation.

I don't understand 'n-ary', but this is one of those areas where RDA
has an "empty node" that has parts, like "publication statement" which
is made up of place + publisher + date. We really didn't know what to
do with those -- we could ignore the empty element and just include
the "sub" elements, but we figure that since the empty ones are on the
RDA list of elements people might look for them in our list. There
never is a value for placeAndDate... itself, just the sub-elements.

I'll look over the finished scenarios during the day. Thanks,
kc


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