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Jonathan, I can't help with most of your problem, but I can point you to the DCMI Type Vocabulary: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-type-vocabulary/ Have a nice day, Jonathan On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > [ The [log in to unmask] listserv seems to be down, so I'll send this here > instead for some feedback, ignore if you know nothing about or don't care > about OpenURL. :) ] > > There doesn't seem to be any good way to specify an audio or video > 'genre' for a SAP1/2 OpenURL. > > The "book" format has all the metadata I'd need in it for audio or video > work specified, but just doesn't let me say audio or video (which I > guess makes sense because it's called "book"). > > But in using my link resolver as a general purpose item-finder, I really > want to be able to send citations to it for audio or video materials > (like a CD or DVD), and them identified as audio or video materials, so > the link resolver can respond accordingly. > > Is there anything I can do at all? > > Hmm, I could send a DC KEV OpenURL (ie info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dc ; there > is no format for an XML DC? Kind of odd), and use the "type" element. "The > nature or genre of the content of the resource. Type includes terms > describing general categories, functions, genres, or aggregation levels for > content. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled > vocabulary (for example, the DCMI Type Vocabulary)." I'm having trouble > finding 'the DCMI Type Vocabulary' for sure (anyone know where I find > that?), but it looks like it might include terms "Sound" and "MovingImage". > > There's no way to actually specify which controlled vocabulary I am using in > a DC KEV OpenURL 'type' element, is there? > > If anyone thinks this makes sense and there's a way to do this, can you > give me an example of a DC KEV OpenURL with a type in it specifying > something like 'audio' or 'video'? > > Jonathan > ** > > -- > Jonathan Rochkind > Digital Services Software Engineer > The Sheridan Libraries > Johns Hopkins University > 410.516.8886 > rochkind (at) jhu.edu > -- Jonathan M. Brinley [log in to unmask] http://xplus3.net/