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 >> > -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu