Sean Chen said: > >I believe the computer media type is now irrelevant and I think that = >referring to things as needing a computer is not going to be in = >alignment with how users are doing FISO. I of course agree. I have no argument that "electronic" is better as a media type than "digital". More than one attendee of RDA workshops suggested "digital".
There is however no source for "digital" as a term with an approved code for $2, as there is for ISBD Area 0's "electronic". It's simply a matter of pragmatism. "Video" as a media type does not have "online resource" listed as a carrier, so I think using video as a media type with online resource as carrier, is a mismatch. The SMD/unit name can be "streaming video", to get that word in. If a patron searches 337 for videos, I doubt streaming ones are wanted, just as one searching 008/28 for documents doesn't need state university press publications. We should consider the utility of what we code. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([email protected]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
