I've been creating constant data forms for my most commonly used
formats, with the 33x fields already filled in--that's even faster.
I really like the 33x fields for many of the materials that i catalog,
but there are some gaping holes.
There isn't a content type that's appropriate for video/computer games
or other interactive materials--we've been using Computer program
combined with Two-dimensional moving image, which might be technically
appropriate but is also misleading and doesn't really get at the nature
of the material.
Three-dimensional moving image is somewhat misleading in that it appears
to be intended for films, but is apparently not appropriate for
3-dimensional games, which uses the term in a somewhat different fashion
(the ability to move in 3 dimensions in the game space).
In the media types, Computer appears to be only for the data and
programs (..."designed for use with a computer..."), but not for the
computer itself (i.e. if you are cataloging an iPad). We've concluded
that it's Other, but that's not very useful. Similarly, the computer
carriers in the carrier type appear to be the storage media but not the
computer itself. It's not even clear to me from RDA whether hard
drives or flash drives can be considered carrier types since they aren't
on the list and it doesn't say that you are permitted to consider
anything but the listed carriers under the listed type--it does say in
3.1.4.5 that you can use another term in the Extent element but it's not
clear how that relates to 3.3.
We also ran into problems with a book that consisted almost entirely of
stereographic images, but volume isn't listed under stereographic
carriers so we weren't sure we could use 337 stereographic with 338 volume.
Greta de Groat
Stanford University Libraries
On 10/24/2012 12:54 PM, Joan Wang wrote:
Very cool! Thanks for letting us know.
Joan Wang
Illinois Heartland Library System
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Adam L. Schiff
<asch...@u.washington.edu <mailto:asch...@u.washington.edu>> wrote:
Another aspect I have not seen mentioned, is that AACR2 style GMDs
only had to be assigned to nonbook materials. RDA 33X must be
assigned to all library resources, a major increase in effort.
Not
only it is three terms for one, but they must be assigned to
many more
records.
For users of OCLC Connexion, there is a macro that makes adding
these terms, along with their coded values, take about 3 seconds.
This is not huge increase of effort. The macro pulls up a
pulldown menu and you just select the terms you need and click add.
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