Quoting "J. McRee Elrod" <[email protected]>:
For starters, how about consulting others and adding "equipment" to
unmediated carriers? With the increase of hand held electronic
devices, this is the major library acquisition with which neither
AACR2 nor RDA copes well. While there are other lacuna, this is the
one we most often encounter.
Mac, there is no reason why such a term could not be added, but today
it could NOT be an RDA term because there is no mechanism in place to
add terms to RDA. This is something that _really_ needs to be addressed.
Creating terms is not difficult, but does require following a few
rules. You could (in theory and in practice) create terms that you
use, assigning them as being sub-terms to the appropriate RDA list.
You would need to be able to give those terms a unique identifier (for
example, something using the domain name slc.bc.ca). Such a term would
be as valid as anything developed by RDA, and wouldn't be confused
with the RDA terms. Anyone receiving it would know that it's an
SBC-defined term. If an equivalent term is ever added to RDA, there is
a way that you can define your term as being the same as the RDA term,
and they could then be used interchangeably.
If you want to see what this might look like, I would be happy to help
you start a "Mac's terms" vocabulary in the registry's sandbox area
http://sandbox.metadataregistry.org/
Conceptually, there would be:
RDA Unmediated carriers: http://RDVocab.info/termList/RDACarrierType/1044
card http://RDVocab.info/termList/RDACarrierType/1045
flipchart http://RDVocab.info/termList/RDACarrierType/1046
...
equipment http://slc.bc.ca/macsTerms/RDAUnmediatedCarrier/equipment
The term "equipment" would have a pointer to "RDA unmediated
carriers." RDA unmediated carriers would NOT point to "equipment"
because RDA doesn't recognize that. But the term would be usable for
anyone who wants to push that envelope, and anyone who receives the
term's URI would be able to look it up and see where it came from.
This only works, of course, if we are using URIs to identify terms.
But it is one of the advantages of doing so because it means that
every term has an owner.
Since we aren't using identifiers in our current world, your only
recourse is to convince JSC that some additions need to be made to RDA
lists. I'm not entirely convinced which of those two possibilities
will happen first. :-)
kc
MP-3 readers, iPads, Kindles, etc. are neither realia, electronic
resources, nor objects, in the usual sense of the terms.
It would also be helpful to have short alternate terms, e.g., "image",
"map", "globe", to use when the content phrase is too long to easily
display.
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