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
>>
>

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Johns Hopkins University
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