> 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? -- Yes. More generally, one of the reasons you do not see a host of resource types at the bottom of Work or Instance is because it is, and can quickly turn into, a rather tricky issue. Yours, Kevin On 01/28/2013 01:37 PM, 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 >