Karen Coyle
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:17:36 -0800
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Diane I. Hillmann <d...@cornell.edu> wrote: > Folks: > > "Other" and "Unspecified" are dead ends and should be unceremoniously > rejected (they will not--repeat NOT--be added to the vocabularies while I > have breath). Not to mention that MARC lists often include all four of these: - Other - Unknown - Not applicable - No attempt to code I argued before the MARC standards group that anyone who was not attempting to code the data element in question would also NOT be likely to code "No attempt to code"... oh, well. Back to the lists: there are a number of "lists" that aren't really lists in RDA: 7.17.2.3 R Recording Colour of Still Images If the still image or images contained in the resource are in black and white or shades of grey, record black and white. If the image or images in black and white are tinted and/or toned, specify tinted, toned, or tinted and toned as appropriate, in parentheses, following black and white. If the image or images are in sepia, record sepia. If the image or images in the resource are in one or two colours, name the colour or colours. Yet RDA considers this a controlled list, and there are different such lists for different materials: RDA colour (still images), RDA colour (moving images), RDA colour (three-dimensional forms) (and there may be others). The lists are included in the RDA element analysis table as vocabulary encoding schemes. So we have lists that don't have a set of values, but in addition we have these lists whose values (if we had them) would overlap The MARC record has actual vocabulary lists for colour for different materials, and these are not open-ended (well, except for 'other'). So for projected material MARC has: One color Black-and-white Multicolored Hand colored Mixed and for electronic material: One color Black-and-white Multicolored Gray scale Mixed IF there were actual lists in RDA, it might be possible to create a master list and use the application profile concept to create format-specific lists. But there aren't really lists in RDA... kc -- -- --- Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant kco...@kcoyle.net http://www.kcoyle.net ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet mo.: 510-435-8234 ------------------------------------