True. Just the best I've found yet. If something better exists, I
haven't found it.
Jonathan
Diane I. Hillmann wrote:
> Jonathan:
>
> What strikes me about the code list you found is how difficult it is
> to use, as compared to what we're starting to do for RDA. The
> methodology that ONIX uses to build and maintain their lists really
> pushes a lot of the onus over to the user to keep up with changes in
> their vocabularies. Among other things, it presupposes a "system"
> into which the XML or CSV can be loaded.
> I have spoken briefly to some of their folks about using the Registry
> (or something like it) to maintain their vocabularies (or, at least,
> to assist others in using their vocabularies), but I'm not sure they
> quite get the notion of re-use outside their community (publishers)
> quite yet. The work that has been done with the RDA/ONIX effort is a
> start, but obviously there's a way to go yet.
> Diane
>
> Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>> Thanks, that's interesting too.
>>
>> One of the most useful lists I've found is actually in ONIX, Code
>> List 7.
>>
>> http://www.editeur.org/codelists.html
>>
>> Although Code List 7 actually needs to be supplemented by Code List
>> 78 if you want full detail. (Like whether a VHS tape is NTSC or PAL;
>> or the fact that a printed book is in Braille (US or UK? Can specify
>> either, hooray.)).
>> The ONIX list is a pretty good and complete list of physical formats
>> for published items, and appears to be free, and is available in XML
>> as well.
>> It does become an awfully LONG list. And is still not entirely
>> intellectually consistent---the article Diane pointed to in D-Lib is
>> the result of trying to harmonize this with library practices in an
>> intellectually consistent way, but it becomes something so abstract
>> that it's kind of hard to deal with, and also leaves many
>> vocabularies unspecified. I think a more or less flat list with
>> specified vocabulary, even if not entirely intellectually consistent,
>> that corresponds to the universe of actually existing published
>> items, is probably more useful.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> Chris Beer wrote:
>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>>
>>> As Esha said, PBCore might be worth looking at. It's probably one of
>>> the more complete lists. If you want something more formal than the
>>> PBCore list, the EBU also has a good vocabulary in an XML format
>>> (http://www.ebu.ch/metadata/cs/ebu_StorageMediaTypeCodeCS.xml). The
>>> nice thing about the EBU list is that some of their term definitions
>>> might help identify more obscure materials.
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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Jonathan Rochkind
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The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
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