The RDA-ONIX Framework allows for a genre attribute to be part of Content Type.
http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2007/5chair10.pdf This has already happened with "cartographic" and "computer" (as in "computer dataset" and "computer program" Content types)-- see Recommendation #3 in the document. The other attributes mapped to Content Type reflect elementary aspects of human perception and communication: Character; Sensory Mode; ImageDimensionality; ImageMovement. I view "computer dataset" and "computer program" as Content Types that are not to be perceived directly by human beings, but rather content that is "processed or performed" by computers. The Content Type "cartographic dataset" also fits here. Once the content escapes the encoded level and enters the mind of the audience or viewer then the Content Type shifts to the human senses involved. In the RDA-ONIX Framework "interaction" and "purpose" are unexplored attributes that can be part of a Content Type. I suppose one could build an RDA-ONIX Content Type mixing interaction, purpose and genre like "interactive recreational videogame". Thomas Brenndorfer Guelph Public Library > -----Original Message----- > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind > Sent: October 25, 2012 1:31 PM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Additional work required by RDA > > On 10/25/2012 1:20 PM, Benjamin A Abrahamse wrote: > > " If a library holds software, mightn't a user want to see a list of > > all the software the library holds, whether games or word processors > > or what have you" > > > > I suppose. But that seems to me like a less direct, or usual user > > task than, "Show me what games your library has." (Which currently > > cannot be answered, for computer games or otherwise, by the RDA > > content/media/carrier vocabulary.) > > I'm not sure it seems to me like less direct or less usual, probably > depends on the environment (maybe in a public library it's a usual > question?). But at any rate. > > You can't do that with AACR2/MARC GMDs/SMDs either, can you? > > Perhaps the right place to record something to answer this question is > actually in a 6xx/LCSH $v form/genre heading? > > I know LC is doing work on revising the LCSH form/genre heading thesaurus > too -- like I said, this is a difficult thing to make a generalizable > taxonomy for. Perhaps that's the right place for there to be a 'games' > heading (entered in a 655), as 'game' is really more of a 'genre' having to > do with the content and the author's intentions for it's use, than it is a > form/format/carrier having to do with the physical properties of the item, > that the RDA vocabularies we're talking about focus on. > > This stuff is really tricky to encompass with standardized shareable > general and universal vocabularies, it's probably not possible to do so > completely (and nothing libraries have tried yet comes close either. For > instance, trying to display or limit by whether an item is a "DVD" (let > alone blue-ray vs standard dvd!), which seems to me to be a VERY common > user need in contemporary libraries accross communities and types (public > as well as academic) -- is a somewhat herculean task with our legacy > metadata).
