We took out the subject wrapper in MADS because we thought it better that
these concepts be considered independently. Geographic is not just a
subject.
Rebecca
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Karen Coyle wrote:
> So do we need both "topic" and "subject" now? Does anyone see potential
> confusion with MODS since "subject" in MODS means any field used as a
> subject (including name and title)?
>
> kc
>
> On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 07:06, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote:
> > > How are hierarchical non-geographical subjects like
> > > "Widgets--Andorra--18th century" expressed with 1 authority = 1
> > > descriptor?
> >
> > Sorry, left out one of the descriptors.
> >
> > So where we had:
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > <xsd:element name="name" type="nameType"/>
> > <xsd:element name="title" type="mods:baseTitleInfoType"/>
> > <xsd:element name="nameTitle" type="nameTitleType"/>
> > <xsd:element name="topic"/>
> > <xsd:element name="temporal" type="mods:dateType"/>
> > <xsd:element name="genre"/>
> > <xsd:element name="geographic"/>
> > <xsd:element name="hierarchicalGeographic"
> > type="mods:hierarchicalGeographicType"/>
> > <xsd:element name="occupation"/>
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Add (after third line):
> > <xsd:element name="subject" type="subjectType"/>
> > (Or, rather than after the third line, probably re-order the list.)
> >
> > And the datatype:
> > ...........
> > <xsd:complexType name="subjectType">
> > <xsd:choice minOccurs='1' maxOccurs="unbounded">
> > <xsd:element name="topic"/>
> > <xsd:element name="temporal" type="mods:dateType"/>
> > <xsd:element name="geographic"/>
> > </xsd:choice>
> > </xsd:complexType>
> >
> > Does this help?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --Ray
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