Hi, Have you looked at PBCore? It's a metadata standard developed by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and is used for tv and other multi media cataloging. They should have a pretty good controlled vocabulary list. Try this: formatPhysical (http://www.pbcore.org/ PBCore/formatPhysical.html) and formatDigital (http://www.pbcore.org/ PBCore/formatDigital.html) hth, Esha Datta Programmer/Analyst Digital Library Technology Services Bobst Library New York University Ph:212-992-9236 On Jan 14, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > 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