At 10:45 AM 2/1/2010, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Not monolithic, but broken into logical components. The element
vocabulary is a logical component that needs to exist, and can then
be used by multiple choices of record formats and multiple choices
of how to display things or what to do with them. The existence of a
coherent element vocabulary is exactly what makes that 'decoupling'
vs 'monolithic' possible, and is the point at which the record
creation process and the software for manipulating or displaying
records can 'shake hands'.
So what we have been discussing is the "coherence" of the RDA and
MARC element vocabularies. Do you have a functional definition of
what makes an element vocabulary coherent?
John Attig
Penn State Univ.
jx...@psu.edu
