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+ | ====== Subjects in RDA and RIMMF ====== | ||
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+ | **Subjects**--what a thing is about--are, at least from the user's point of view, one of the most important bits of data that we add to our descriptions of things. | ||
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+ | In RDA, it seemed that **subjects** were originally designed to be handled by the four COEP entities--Concept, | ||
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+ | Eventually, we decided that the concept of **subject** was far too important to be left out in the cold, as it were, and so we added a generic ' | ||
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+ | Now, with the April 2015 update to the Toolkit, and subsequent June update to the RDA Registry, ' | ||
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+ | In the Toolkit, **subjects** are handled by the new Chapter 23, and supported by the list of relationship designators in the new Appendix M. | ||
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+ | ===== The ' | ||
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+ | In RIMMF3, beginning with update 150801, the new subject elements will mesh seamlessly with our old one(s). | ||
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+ | Before this update, RIMMF subject data contained classification and subject heading strings (structured text), as in this snippet:\\ | ||
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+ | with an occasional link to a Person, as here:\\ | ||
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+ | After the update, RIMMF' | ||
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+ | And thanks a bit to good design, and no doubt also to serendipity, | ||
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+ | Adding a more specific subject relationship to an existing subject is as simple as clicking on the label to open the dropdown list and selecting the relationship you want to update the existing one to (and of course, you can do the same thing by pressing F7 to display the structured list of relationships, | ||
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+ | And once that's done, you can double-click on the link, and visit Agatha' | ||
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