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I'll follow on to what Ethan said with a recommendation for a step one may take if one wishes to distinguish further between genre and form and/or prepare one's data for RDF or other modeling which allow that distinction. In EAD3, although not in EAD 2002, the <genreform> element has an option to use @localtype. This would allow an institution to indicate a functional difference between information about genres and formats in the element. Ruth On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I think Jane's statement is about the conflation of genre and format. In > your example, "Interviews" is the "genre" and "Audiocassette" is the > format. Or rather, Audiocassette is an object type according to the Getty > AAT (http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300028661), and format might be reserved > for some other technical information about the audiocassette. EAD finding > aids typically contain a huge range of genre and/or format values within > the genreform element, which makes it difficult to clean up into meaningful > search facets in publication. This is why the Europeana Data Model has a > dcterms:format and an edm:hasType (for genre). > > Ethan > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Michele R Combs <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> I think of it this way: genre is to word-things as form is to 3-D things >> >> In other words, a picture can be oil, watercolor, charcoal, chalk, ink, >> etc. >> A book or an audiotape can be interviews, memoir, fiction, sci fi, >> horror, etc. >> >> If we had a collection of interviews on audiotape, we would give it both >> applicable terms: >> <genreform>Audiocassette</genreform> >> <genreform>Interviews.</genreform> >> >> Michele >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On >> Behalf Of Jane Stevenson >> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 4:29 AM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Genre and Form >> >> HI there, >> >> i’ve never been quite clear about the <genreform> tag. >> >> >> The EAD2002 and EAD3 guide says: >> >> "A term that identifies the types of material being described, by naming >> the style or technique of their intellectual content (genre); order of >> information or object function (form); and physical characteristics. >> Examples include: account books, architectural drawings, portraits, short >> stories, sound recordings, and videotapes.” >> >> But genre is a style, like ‘gothic’ architecture or ‘romantic’ literature >> or ‘garage’ music. So, you might say the ‘form’ is a short story or a >> videotape, but the genre is ‘comedy’ or ‘documentary’. >> >> It just doesn’t seem like these are the same thing and I’ve never >> understood why they are put together. >> >> I just wondered if anyone has any thoughts on this. I’ve just never been >> able to convey it to our contributors in a way that makes sense to me >> because describing something as a ’short story’ seems very different from >> describing its style as, say, ‘romantic’ in terms of genre. I’ve never >> understood why we put these together. >> >> cheers, >> Jane >> >> Jane Stevenson >> Archives Hub Service Manager >> [log in to unmask] >> >> Jisc is a registered charity (number 1149740) and a company limited by >> guarantee which is registered in England under Company No. 5747339, VAT No. >> GB 197 0632 86. Jisc’s registered office is: One Castlepark, Tower Hill, >> Bristol, BS2 0JA. T 0203 697 5800. >> >> Jisc Services Limited is a wholly owned Jisc subsidiary and a company >> limited by guarantee which is registered in England under company number >> 2881024, VAT number GB 197 0632 86. The registered office is: One Castle >> Park, Tower Hill, Bristol BS2 0JA. T 0203 697 5800. >> > > -- http://eadiva.com | http://ruthtillman.com/ | @ruthbrarian