Damian Iseminger said: >As concerns the use of the term "online resource", I agree that the >term is problematic. To me it implies availability (i.e., the >resource is available on the Internet) as opposed to the carrier of >the content. I would prefer a term like digital resource.
"Digital resource" would be more accurate for resources on a physical carrier than online resource. Our answer in AACR2 (as opposed to the PN "online resource") is to use a *specific* *S*MD (how radical!), e.g., electronic text, website, streaming video, video game, etc. The only place we see to be exact in RDA is the unit name. At the moment we are considering adding "PDF" to the already accepted DVD, CD, CD-ROM, etc. We did consider "digital file" as an RDA unit name (it is mentioned in the RDA text, but not in a list); that term too seems too broad. Aren't all electronic resources digital files? __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([email protected]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
