> On 12 Nov 2015, at 15:51, Simon Spero <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > In regards to the original issue, genre and form are logically distinct concepts, and it is not advisable to conflate the two. Genre is an attribute of the content of a work; form is most often an attribute of the carrier or medium. > > It is theoretically and practically better to model the two things separately, then provide an underdetermined union for legacy data. > Big + to separating these out - at the moment it is very difficult to provide good search options because these are mixed up so often - although the way this is spread across the current MARC record + subject headings will probably make clean separation of existing data challenging - but I’m in favour of at least getting this right in the model. Owen