The RDA Content Type "audio" does cover MP3 players as the intermediary device (RDA 3.2).
Which would result in: Content type=audio and Carrier type=other and which does correspond generally with current Playaway AACR2 record values: GMD = [sound recording] 300$a = 1 sound media player 007/00=s - sound recording 007/00=z - other But there is also a 006/00=m (computer file/electronic resource) and a 007/00=c (electronic resource), as well as a 008/23=q (direct electronic). I'm wondering for the computer-like "other" carrier, there couldn't be a simplification based around the idea of the "file server". For Carrier Type=online resource, according to the RDA/ONIX Framework (http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2007/5chair10.pdf) the StorageMediumFormat value is "file server." This makes sense when considering remote access or online resources, but a file server can also be accessed directly (similar to "direct electronic"). A portable media player is essentially a miniaturized and mass-produced "file server," but accessed in a "direct electronic" way. So perhaps all one needs is a new value for StorageMediumFormat parallel to file server such as "digital media player". The word "player" denotes this will be a direct electronic device as opposed to a remote access file server. So, following RDA/ONIX generally one could have: StorageMediumFormat = digital media player HousingFormat = not applicable IntermediationTool = audio producing a label for Carrier Type "audio media player" and Media Type = audio. Switch to IntermediationTool = video for Playaway Views and one gets Carrier Type = "video media player" and Media Type = video. and switch to IntermediationTool = computer for portable multimedia devices (perhaps for all-in-one tablets or ebook readers that can combine digitized text, audio and video) and one gets Carrier Type = "multimedia player" and Media Type = computer. In RDA, Media Type=computer can be used for online or direct electronic access. 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 Kelley McGrath > Sent: March-15-13 2:48 PM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] eBooks & Playaways > > I guess I'm not sure that a Playaway is unmediated. It's just that the > mediation is transparent to the end user. The user doesn't have to put a disc > in; they just put in batteries and push play. Mediation for digital content is > likely to become increasingly transparent. In a sense everything tangible that > we catalog is an object, but a Playaway is presumably wanted not as > something to be looked at or touched, but as an integrated audio carrier. > > If you could move content on and off the Playaway, would that change your > opinion? If a library circulates audiobooks on ipods or ebooks on a Kindle, > should those records also be for objects? This actually seems to be an > unsettled area. > > Kelley > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Robert Maxwell > <robert_maxw...@byu.edu> wrote: > > In my opinion a Playaway is unmediated. You don't need anything other > > than the object itself (and a source of electricity) to get the > > information, in contrast to, say, a CD, which you need to put in a machine > > in > order to use. > > Media type is "a categorization reflecting the general type of > > intermediation device required to view, play, run, etc., the content > > of a resource." No intermediation device is needed to hear/play the > > content of a Playaway. > > > > I find it analogous to a music box, which would also be unmediated. > > > > There is not a good unmediated carrier type (yet) for a Playaway. But > > as noted below, there isn't a good carrier type under the other > > categories either.
