Yep, there's no way to know.
It seems to me that there needs to be an additional vocabulary term
added to legal ones in 338 that describes a playaway somehow. It might
not _specifically_ identify a playaway(tm), you might need to look in
non-controlled fields to see that still. But there should be something
there that isn't just "other".
Something that says "this is a thing that, itself, plays [from the 447]
audio. You don't need to put it in a player."
I know some people object to using "realia" or "object" for a playaway.
But a term indicating realia or object when combined with 337 audio
seems to clearly identify something that in itself (without needing a
machine to put it in) plays audio. Is there anything else a
338="realia" combined with 337=audio could describe? (It woudln't need
to be displayed to the user using the same word from the controlled
vocabulary.)
Would that possibly work? Is there such a legal 338 already other than
"other", that when combined with 337 audio would unambiguously mean
"this is a thing that plays audio built into it."?
On 4/26/2011 2:52 PM, Julie Moore wrote:
My concern is that if you have
336 spoken word $2 rdacontent
337 audio $2 rdamedia
338 other $2 rda carrier
How do they know that that this thing is a Playaway, unless you say
it's a Playaway in the 300? And for matching, you must have
consistency. Even for human beings, we need consistency. Even for
human beings looking at the following list of various possible 300s,
would everyone understand that what they are talking about is a
Playaway? (No!)
1 sound media player
1 pre-recorded MP3 player
1 pre-recorded digital audio player
1 Playaway
1 audio media player
1 digital media player
Once LC says whatever it is going to say, we are in desperate need for
the various cataloging constituencies to write guidelines (their
interpretations) of exactly how materials such as these are to be
consistently cataloged. This piece really cannot be left up to
cataloger's judgment, because that leaves the field open to many
different answers.
Julie
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Mark Ehlert <ehler...@umn.edu
<mailto:ehler...@umn.edu>> wrote:
Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu <mailto:rochk...@jhu.edu>> wrote:
> One idea is if perhaps the matching algorithm could use the new
3xx fields
> instead of the 300 "type of unit" free text. Of course, that
relies on the
> new 3xx fields using only controlled terms, which I'm not sure
is the case
> (but should be!).
Assuming 3xx is limited to the 336-338, then the CMC types are already
set up as controlled terms. Hence the prescribed "other" and
"unspecified" terms provided for all three lists.
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