Re: [libdb-develop] [ANN] LibDB 0.0.1 Released

[Morbus I. <mo...@di...>]

>Based on what I've been learning from the MODS community, it seems to
>me you ought to have some way to track with which community a given
>role is associated.  For example, clearly I would want you to include
>the MARC relator role terms, because it allows me to track authors,
>translators, recipients, etc... even directors (which I do keep track
>of).  But it would probably be important to know that role term X is
>associated with that controlled list.  It allows you to then map to
>MODS too, where you have:

Fair enough. The big challenge is showing the proper
list, at the proper time. Say we have books and movies.
It's quite easy to say "show me only roles related to books".
But, now, add two different authorities. How would we display
them? Both in the same list ("author [marc]", "author [bob]").
What about equivalence? Which is the more proper authority to use?

>BTW, and only slightly off-topic, one of the useful things I am
>thinking about MODS' handling of this is that one can have more than
>one roleTerm element associated with a name.  E.g.:

LibDB can have more than one. In fact, most movable parts
of the LibDB database can have "more than one" of something.
There are certainly exceptions ("provenance", for example.
Granted, there's a huge history, both alleged and factual, to
the owners of The Spear Of Destiny, but I'm not sure how having
individual fields for each owner would be useful (well, ok,
saying it like that, now I can, but "provenance" is used so
rarely that I'm gonna let it fester until someone *else*
requests multiple provenanii for each item).

><role>
>	<roleTerm type="text" authority="dc">creator</roleTerm>
>	<roleTerm type="text" authority="marc">writer</roleTerm>
></role>
>
>My thinking here -- and someone confirm that I am right (or not) please
>-- is by having the more generic (but still useful) creator role, it
>can be easily mapped to DC and to any citation formatting output.

It certainly seems useful to me. Who the hell is the "creator" of a
movie? It's not solely the director, nor actors, or lighting guy.

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