Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
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As I said, one might look at the list of RDA Core Elements
for a start and try to twist it into something the average
person may perhaps warm to. If that turns out impossible, then what?
(This is not to say we should store data that way, of course)
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Another possibility, and possibly more understandable since it avoids all the FRBR concepts, would be to use the current BIBCO standards http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/core2002.html and translate these into everyday language, eliminating some of the more bizarre fields, e.g. the fixed fields.
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Received on Fri Jun 25 2010 - 08:38:25 EDT