Roy Tennant tweeted that he wanted to be told he is wrong. I took the bait and read his blog post "RDA Adds Complexity to MARC" here http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1520052752.html (Yes I used the full url and not a bit.ly or a tiny.url!)
It is a short read but clear and thoughtful - as Roy always is - and though I hate be thought of as "a spoiler" his last paragraph is to the point and I just can't say he is wrong:
"I wish I had more confidence than I do in our bibliographic future. I really wish that I could believe that this represents a systemic, clean break from our past and a firm move into really machine-ready data. And I really, really wish I could feel inspired about this change, instead of skeptical, and fearful, and disappointed at what increasingly looks like a missed opportunity. Please convince me I am wrong. I really, really want to be wrong."
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Friday, January 2, 2009
Dublin Core and RDA - Posting on testing with links
Posted to the NGC4LIB discussion list on January 2, 2009
"The DCMI/RDA Task Group has been doing some testing of RDA data since last fall, based on several cataloging scenarios we developed with members of the community, using what we then knew about the RDA element set and roles vocabulary. The scenarios and testing are available at: http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/ The site also includes use cases, developer scenarios, etc. We're happy to have the testing group use as much of these as are useful.
As I'm sure you are aware, the RDA elements, roles and selected vocabularies are available on the NSDL Registry (http://metadataregistry.org), and they can be used by anyone. I'm happy to answer any questions about what's there, decisions that have been made about registration, what's missing, etc. Most of the work of registration and the wiki scenarios has been done with the help of Karen Coyle. Both of us are happy to be available to the testing group at any point.
Regards,
Diane Hillmann
co-chair, DCMI/RDA Task Group"
"The DCMI/RDA Task Group has been doing some testing of RDA data since last fall, based on several cataloging scenarios we developed with members of the community, using what we then knew about the RDA element set and roles vocabulary. The scenarios and testing are available at: http://dublincore.org/
As I'm sure you are aware, the RDA elements, roles and selected vocabularies are available on the NSDL Registry (http://metadataregistry.org), and they can be used by anyone. I'm happy to answer any questions about what's there, decisions that have been made about registration, what's missing, etc. Most of the work of registration and the wiki scenarios has been done with the help of Karen Coyle. Both of us are happy to be available to the testing group at any point.
Regards,
Diane Hillmann
co-chair, DCMI/RDA Task Group"
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