On 12 May 2012 09:09, BWS Johnson <abesottedphoe...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Salvete! > > >>T he working Group of spanish Koha-Kobli community (http://kobli.bage.es) is >> finishing to bring up to date the default framework to the last update of >> MARC21, the 14 (April 2012), we will send it to Koha community shortly. >> >> We believe that it is not at all incompatible to update the default framework >> with to add functionalities related semantic web and RDA. Anyway we need to >> be >> able to collect certain information in the fields and subfields of MARC >> framework to add these new features >> > > Sweet. :D > > >> Hi Cecil >> >> These could be added to the default framework and plugins developed. >> But since the Library of Congress has backed right off RDA + MARC and >> has said that that is not the way forward. We lost urgency on adding >> this. I think in terms of RDA the work Magnus is doing with >> SemantiKoha and RDF is going to be much more use in the long run. >> >> > > Excepting that they haven't. This was sent out to the GOVDOCS listserv. > Except that they have
http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-103111.html Chris > Cheers, > Brooke > > _____________________________________________ > > Please find below Beacher Wiggins, Director for Acquisitions and > Bibliographic Access, Library of Congress' announcement of the electronic > journal, LCCN. > > > Richard Yarnall, Section Head > U.S. Government Documents Section > U.S./Anglo Division > Library of Congress > 101 Independence Ave., SE > Washington, D.C. 20540-4274 > > r...@loc.gov > > 202-707-9470 > 202-707-9474 > 202-707-0380, fax > > > "I'm > pleased to introduce the newest issue of LCCN, the electronic journal > of the Library of Congress Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access > Directorate. LCCN was the first e-journal to be issued by the Library > of Congress. It was first published in January 1993 and ran until June > 2008. After a hiatus of nearly four years, we are reviving the > publication in order to share informal news and background stories from > LC's technical processing staff with the library community. Policy > updates and other official news will continue to be posted on our > Cataloging and Acquisitions Website at http://www.loc.gov/aba/ > > The > Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate is a very different > place in April 2012 than it was in June 2008. We have completely > redesigned our workflows and merged acquisitions and cataloging tasks; > tested and agreed to implement RDA: Resource Description and Access in > conjunction with the other U.S. national libraries, probably in March > 2013; and begun inputting metadata in original scripts directly to our > integrated library system. As staffing has decreased from 600 in 2008 > to just under 500 employees today, "ABA" is a leaner, more efficient > organization. We proved that assertion by our record-high cataloging > production in 2010 and 2011 and record acquisitions in 2011. Moreover, a > career in technical processing at LC is more challenging and intriguing > than ever, as LCCN's new series "A Day in the Life of ..." shows. > Welcome to the new LCCN! > > Beacher J. Wiggins > Director for Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access > Library of Congress > ________________________________________ > > LCCN is available in electronic form only and is free of charge. To > subscribe, send a mail message to lists...@listserv.loc.gov with the text: > subscribe lccn [firstname lastname]. Please be sure that the text is the body > of the message, not the subject line." > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha