Bruce,
Just a note that you may find yourself painted into a corner when you
associate document types (i.e. "review", "newspaper") with genres that
relate to publishing patterns (i.e. "serial"). It may actually be better
to have the publishing pattern and document type be separate so they can
be combined in any way. For example, you can have maps that are serials,
in that they are issued on a regular basis and may even have an ISSN.
And the one that always gets people in trouble is the "conference
publication" -- which can be a serial, a monograph (a one-off
conference), or an article in a journal (some journals sprinkle the
conference papers over a couple of issues). I guess the upshot is that
there is no set of categories that will not run into exceptions.
The other question is: what is the purpose of the publication pattern
information in these categories? Is it just to help understand the
document types? Or is it strict?
kc
Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> I'm finding that a lot of developers I talk to are simply overwhelmed
> by MODS, and the schema is so flexible/loose that it allows for a lot
> of mistakes for non-experts working with it. I also found that in
> writing my citation formatting code I needed to rely on a certain rigor
> that MODS itself does not enforce.
>
> So, I've started to write a "MODS Strict" schema that is a much more
> tightly controlled subset of MODS.
>
> So, not surprisingly, I'm writing it (from scratch, since I have to) in
> RELAX NG, and basing a lot of the validation logic on a notion of
> structural class that is tied into the genre system. The reason why I
> am doing this is that it allows me to ensure that the user enters the
> correct associated content.
>
> Here's what the categorization looks like, and I'd love if people could
> offer feedback on my classification, which is no doubt off in places.
> I think I may need to create another -- generic -- category of genres
> that I move some of them into.
>
> ## adapt MARC genre list and categorize them into classes
> div {
> ## Not all genres can be grouped into a single class of record
> ## so here we have a more generic category.
> Genres-part = "short story" | "poetry" | "essay"
> Genres-part-inSerial =
> "abstract or summary"
> | "article"
> | "legal article"
> | "legal case"
> | "legislation"
> | "patent"
> | "reporting"
> | "review"
> Genres-part-inMonograph = "chapter" | "song" | "hearing"
> Genres-serial =
> "academic journal"
> | "conference publication"
> | "law report or digest"
> | "magazine"
> | "newspaper"
> Genres-monograph =
> "album"
> | "art original"
> | "art reproduction"
> | "atlas"
> | "book"
> | "chart"
> | "database"
> | "dictionary"
> | "dissertation"
> | "graphic"
> | "handbook"
> | "interview"
> | "loose-leaf"
> | "map"
> | "memoir"
> | "microscope slide"
> | "motion picture"
> | "novel "
> | "numeric data"
> | "personal communication"
> | "remote sensing image"
> | "report"
> | "slide"
> | "speech"
> | "statistics"
> | "treaty"
> | "technical drawing"
> | "technical report"
> | "videorecording"
> | "web site"
> }
> }
>
> Note that while I've used MARC terms, I've also added to them (the MARC
> list needs to include the stuff I added -- magazine, academic journal,
> hearing, personal communication, dissertation) or modified them (the
> awkward "legal case and case notes" became just "legal case").
>
> Bruce
>
>
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