The dissertation type is interesting, thanks, Jason. It basically takes
what WAS a note that essentially changed the meaning of the entire
record and makes dissertation a type of resource. [1] That is great to
see. I note that there are two "sub-types" under Work [2]: dissertation
and cartographic. I would have bet that music would end up there, but it
isn't. Not to mention serials and seriality. We can take bets on which
types move out of Work and become subtypes :-). And I can see what you
mean about scaling.
kc
[1] I also was wrong about their not being a fixed field: there is a
code for theses. I believe the difficulty in my institution was that the
code was filled in less often than the note was created. Probably not
uncommon.
[2] http://bibframe.org/vocab/Work.html (scroll to bottom)
On 1/28/13 10:37 AM, Jason Ronallo wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> As an example, one field that I would greatly miss is the 502 Dissertation
>> Note. Unless things have changed since I was still processing MARC records,
>> the presence of this note is the only way to know that what you have is a
>> dissertation. Obviously folks in academic libraries would want to be able to
>> limit some searches to dissertations. (I'd be happy for "dissertation" to be
>> a value somewhere in the future record -- although we'd still need the
>> information that is in the note, and it might need some special treatment.)
> It appears that Dissertation will be handled through its own type:
> http://bibframe.org/vocab/Dissertation.html
> Is this a pattern which is likely to repeat? I wonder if this approach
> will run into some of the same scaling issues of Schema.org and
> require some sort of external enumeration or additionalType property
> to accommodate all the different types of things collected.
>
> Jason
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