Hi,
Have you looked at PBCore? It's a metadata standard developed by the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting and is used for tv and other
multi media cataloging. They should have a pretty good controlled
vocabulary list. Try this: formatPhysical (http://www.pbcore.org/
PBCore/formatPhysical.html) and formatDigital (http://www.pbcore.org/
PBCore/formatDigital.html)
hth,
Esha Datta
Programmer/Analyst
Digital Library Technology Services
Bobst Library
New York University
Ph:212-992-9236
On Jan 14, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Thanks Diane. That article on RDA/ONIX doesn't seem to include
actual terms, the actual vocabularly. I realize there are plans to
'register' it officially, but prior to that, can the actual term
list be found anywhere in human-readable format? Or does it not
exist yet?
Jonathan
Diane I. Hillmann wrote:
Hi, Jonathan,
Two points as you search out a solution:
1. I agree with your assessment of the current RDA carrier
vocabulary. You might want to look at the RDA/ONIX vocabularies
(still not registered, but there are plans to do so: http://
www.dlib.org/dlib/january07/dunsire/01dunsire.html).
2. These vocabularies are a start, not a finish: once RDA and the
vocabularies are "published" there's an intention to begin
improving them. The first step was to get the out of the text,
the second to build on the NSDL Registry's vocabulary development
tools (some there, some not yet) to build them up in ways that
will be much more useful.
Diane
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Anyone know of any good existing controlled vocabulary for
'format' or 'carrier' for multimedia materials? I'm thinking of
things like "CD", "DVD", "digital", etc.
The closest I can get is from RDA at http://metadataregistry.org/
concept/list/vocabulary_id/46.html (thanks Karen and Diane), but
it seems _really_ insufficient. As far as I can tell "audio disc"
is used for both a CD and a vinyl disc, and there's nothing
available there for "DVD" at all. Or for "digital". Although
I'm not sure what I mean by "digital", I guess CD and DVD are
both digital, but I was thinking of something to identify a
digital file on a computer network free of particular carrier. I
guess that wouldn't be in a carrier vocabulary at all, after all,
that would be sort of a null carrier. Phew, this stuff does get
complicated quick. Which I guess is why nobody's worked out a
good one yet.
Too bad RDA's is so _far_ from good though. Any others anyone
knows about?
Jonathan
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Anyone know of any good existing controlled vocabulary for
'format' or 'carrier' for multimedia materials? I'm thinking of
things like "CD", "DVD", "digital", etc.
The closest I can get is from RDA at http://metadataregistry.org/
concept/list/vocabulary_id/46.html (thanks Karen and Diane), but
it seems _really_ insufficient. As far as I can tell "audio disc"
is used for both a CD and a vinyl disc, and there's nothing
available there for "DVD" at all. Or for "digital". Although
I'm not sure what I mean by "digital", I guess CD and DVD are
both digital, but I was thinking of something to identify a
digital file on a computer network free of particular carrier. I
guess that wouldn't be in a carrier vocabulary at all, after all,
that would be sort of a null carrier. Phew, this stuff does get
complicated quick. Which I guess is why nobody's worked out a
good one yet.
Too bad RDA's is so _far_ from good though. Any others anyone
knows about?
Jonathan
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Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
