Oops, the "ambiguity" was in my message, sorry :O. The note field was
just meant to be a label FYI. The important bits were that a legal
article had a genre of "legal article" or a host with genre "law report
or digest", while a journal article had a host with genre
"periodical".
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Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 18:12
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Subject: Re: [MODS] genres and governments records
On Dec 5, 2003, at 3:33 PM, Andrew E Switala wrote:
> <mods>
> <note>journal article</note>
> <genre authority="marcgt"><! technical report, essay,
survey of
> literature, etc. ></genre>
> <relatedItem type="host">
> <genre authority="marcgt">periodical</genre>
> </relatedItem>
> </mods>
[...snip...]
> Where's the ambiguity?
Surely it's a bad idea to depend on a generic and uncontrolled
note for
data portability and formatting reliability.
Bruce
