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> 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.
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> 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