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
Maybe we need a new media type (or would it be an unmediated carrier type??)
that is something like interactive?? In all the examples so far (Playaway,
music box, Kindle), the user needs to do something to make it work, even though
the user does not need an *additional* device to gain access.
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
FWIW I've been arguing there needs to be a *content* type for interactive for
a long time. Interactive media is only going to become more prevalent in
libraries, not less.
However I'm not sure interactive would be an appropriate carrier type--A
categorization reflecting the format of the
Is Playaway a storage medium (carrier) as well as a player medium? Probably
a stupid question :)
Thanks,
Joan Wang
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Kelley McGrath kell...@uoregon.edu wrote:
I guess I'm not sure that a Playaway is unmediated. It's just that the
mediation is transparent to the
Sorry. should be a playing medium.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Joan Wang jw...@illinoisheartland.orgwrote:
Is Playaway a storage medium (carrier) as well as a player medium?
Probably a stupid question :)
Thanks,
Joan Wang
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Kelley McGrath
If we back up to 3.2.1.1. in the toolkit we find:
Scope
Media
typeâ–¼http://access.rdatoolkit.org/document.php?id=rdaglosstarget=rdagloss-104#rdagloss-104
is
a categorization reflecting the general type of intermediation device
required to view, play, run, etc., the content of a resource.
Because
Yes, I might have a different opinion if you could move information on and off
a Playaway. But they exist as a dedicated player for a single book. No
mediation is required to use one. I don't see why it would make a difference
that it is digital. Do you agree that a windup music box would be
Sara said:
Maybe we need a new media type (or would it be an unmediated carrier
type??) that is something like interactive?? ...
I agree we need an additional term. Other is very uninformative.
The MRIs have one: equipment.
Even for a print book, one (or some of us) must put on our bifocals,
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