Re: [RDA-L] How to catalog digital objects in RDA?

2008-11-26 Thread Weinheimer Jim
> Interestingly, as I understand it the new biblios.net cooperative > metadatastore from LibLime takes this approach. I don't know if it uses > XSLT or not, but if I understand correctly, the underlying data store > supports having multiple schema-representations of the same resource, > and relati

Re: [RDA-L] How to catalog digital objects in RDA?

2008-11-26 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Interestingly, as I understand it the new biblios.net cooperative metadatastore from LibLime takes this approach. I don't know if it uses XSLT or not, but if I understand correctly, the underlying data store supports having multiple schema-representations of the same resource, and relating those d

Re: [RDA-L] How to catalog digital objects in RDA?

2008-11-26 Thread Weinheimer Jim
And as an extra wrinkle when considering these matters, the original file may be in XML and the different formats are merely generated from this one file through the use of different XSL Transformations. So, a single file in XML format can create *on the fly* a pdf, html, MSWord, and theoretical

Re: [RDA-L] How to catalog digital objects in RDA?

2008-11-25 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Jakob asked: >For instance how to you catalog a a web page or a PDF file deposited at >a repository? And what do you do if the PDF is also availabe at a second >server and there is a HTML version of the same document at the third? RDA Appendix M has examples: http://www.rdaonline.org/constituenc

[RDA-L] How to catalog digital objects in RDA?

2008-11-25 Thread Jakob Voss
Hi, Unfortunately the RDA draft is spread over a bunch of PDF files instead of web-friendly HTML that you can search in and link to - could you point me to the right section(s) about cataloging digital objects? I wonder because as far as I understand with a digital object the difference between i