Re: Bibliographic control

2007-03-13 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
On Mar 11, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Hal Cain wrote: Quoting Roy Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What, exactly, are you talking about? What aspects of bibliographic description do you think are essential to achieve the goals you describe? What do you think are the specific elements of what we do tha

Re: Fwd: [NGC4LIB] Framework for a Bibliographic Future

2007-03-13 Thread Diane I. Hillmann
Mac, et al.: John Larson said: The really strong advantage of the distinction between data and display is that you can hide information that users won't generally need. Thus, for instance, you can hide the fact that in the controlled vocabulary, "autobiographies" as a term may be an exempli

Re: Framework for a Bibliographic Future

2007-03-13 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Diane I. Willmann said: >The point I was trying to make was that there are other ways to >identify concepts from vocabularies other than by typing in their >text "labels" And a very good point it is. MARC21 uses 650 vs. 655 to distinguish between subject and genre (or in the case of your item

Re: Fwd: [NGC4LIB] Framework for a Bibliographic Future

2007-03-13 Thread James Agenbroad
Mac, As you said, "It's hard to say nicely that the emperor is naked." Regards, Jim Agenbroad ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) ) ** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://ww

Re: Fwd: [NGC4LIB] Framework for a Bibliographic Future

2007-03-13 Thread J. McRee Elrod
John Larson said: >The really strong advantage of the distinction between data and display is >that you can hide information that users won't generally need. Thus, for >instance, you can hide the fact that in the controlled vocabulary, >"autobiographies" as a term may be an exemplified attribut

Re: Fwd: [NGC4LIB] Framework for a Bibliographic Future

2007-03-13 Thread John Larson
On 3/13/07, J. McRee Elrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Why is its genre called a subject? It is, one assumes, an >autobiography, not a book about autobiographies as the descriptive set >says. Certainly this item would be of no use to a patron seeking works about autobiographies, the stated "S

Re: Fwd: [NGC4LIB] Framework for a Bibliographic Future

2007-03-13 Thread J. McRee Elrod
I said of the sample descriptive set posted at: http://futurelib.pbwiki.com/Framework >Why is its genre called a subject? It is, one assumes, an >autobiography, not a book about autobiographies as the descriptive set >says. Certainly this item would be of no use to a patron seeking works ab