I have done a blog post on the RDA treatment of extent of content and
carrier. Here is an unformated/unlinked version of the text, but I hope
to receive comments at the blog because that keeps the original post and
the comments together, for future reference.
I think the mixing of disparate types of data reflects the long
tradition of book-centric library cataloging rules. It's taken for
granted that something is a book unless otherwise stated, so the extent
refers to the number of constitutent parts (pages or leaves and/or
volumes). In a century or
Elizabeth O'Keefe said:
I think the mixing of disparate types of data reflects the long
tradition of book-centric library cataloging rules.
The best example of that bad mixture is perhaps the mixed bag of AACR2
sample SMDs for remote electronic resources.
With RDA we will use 300$a1 PDF (x,
On 4/8/12 5:13 PM, Elizabeth O'Keefe wrote:
But the
mixing of apples and oranges in the extent field makes this difficult,
unless the system is sophisticated enough that it will display the
extent of item only if it belongs to certain content types but not
others. I'm hoping that the new
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