Resource type list with each property?

Summary:

The usefulness of having a list of resource types appropriate to each property

Resource type list with each property?

KatieBlake 1208315095|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

At the moment I have structured the Wiki by resource type and by property. Under each property I have listed the resource types which might contain that property. For example, I've listed under conference location the two resource types of conference paper and conference item.

Is this a useful thing to do? Could it be seen as too prescriptive? Should we say something about them being suggestions only?

Re: Resource type list with each property?

Joan Gray 1208417061|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Firstly thanks Katie and Ange for making this site available. It is a lot of work to do this. Regarding properties and resource types…
Properties are linked to objects types (journal, book etc) here and this type of content model may be useful to the community for now. But we don’t want this to suggest that other data models are not supported. Other data models are currently being used for resource description eg eprint model. The Eprints Application profile (SWAP) is based on the eprint model and this is based on FRBR (Functional requirements for Bibliographic Records). MACAR properties can be mapped to an entity/relationship model such as this. Other mappings and crosswalks to APs and schemas can be provided in the future. And as for the resource type vocabulary… this was developed as a controlled vocabulary for use with the resource type as a property eg dc:type book much like the eprints type vocabulary encoding scheme (although this only applies to text-based resources) RDA (replacement for AACR), a library content standard is moving away from a format based approach to providing a data element vocabulary for most resources. Keeping properties separate from controlled vocabularies may provide more options in the future …. Just my thoughts for now