Greta said:

>For example the prescribed >vocabulary for 3.19.3.3 for encoding
>format is quite inadequate to the >real-world situation of many newer
>format types and complicated digital >objects like games.

Would that not always be true of any prescribed list?  In RDA/MARC21
we can use any popular exact term as unit name, rather than repeating
a more general term from the RDA carrier list.  I assume Bibframe
would have a unit name (aka SMD) tag which would accept any desired
terms.  For example, the MRIs add "kit" to the RDA carrier list, a
term we often use in collation, and the term we most miss from AACR2's
GMD terms.  There will always be a need for terms not in a prescribed
list, as well as lacking a code to substitute for the term.


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