What's your use case for the COinS, Chad?

-Mike



On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The missing formats are missing because they were never defined in the
> OpenURL standard. There is a registry of formats [1] that was designed to
> be updatable, although few updates have been done. I worked on the document
> type standards that are there today, and would happily help develop
> additional types if we can get some assurance that they could be added to
> the standard. I honestly do not know what mechanism exists for adding new
> types, but if anyone is interested we could ping the appropriate folks at
> OCLC and see.
>
> kc
> [1] http://alcme.oclc.org/openurl/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=
> ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=Core:Metadata+Formats
>
>
> On 1/17/14, 8:36 AM, Chad Mills wrote:
>
>> I was able to easily find and create COinS for books and journals.  I
>> started thinking about images, video, audio, etc.  I see references to
>> 'info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:unknown' as a rft_val_fmt value some places.  I would
>> assume if I went down that road the rft.genre would have a value of
>> 'unknown' as well.  Is there some other alternative I am missing when
>> handling other formats?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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>>
>
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