There is a podcast interview by Scott Mace of Open Source Conversations with Karen Coyle. The interview is linked from Karen's blog: (http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2007/03/podcast-on-libraries-and-standards.html).
Ms Coyle's range of expertise and felicity in expression is outstanding. She does an excellent job of making the history of librarianship and library concerns understandable to a larger community. One small quibble: by saying Library of Congress records go into "a" file of bibliographic records, she ignores other bibliographic utilities than OCLC, not to mention Z39.50 searching. One medium size quibble: In advancing the simplistic Dublin Core as librarianship's contribution to the larger metadata community, she fails to advance ISBD/MARC as a selection and order of data elements, and a way of encoding them in a language neutral manner. I wonder if one of the problems with RDA is that it is trying to be both an urber metadata standard (to cataloguing rules as ISBD(G) is to other ISBDs), and at the same time a standard to meet the particular needs of libraries. Perhaps that is why it is under attack from those of us who wish to preserve our most successful international standard, ISBD's choice and order of elements (including statement of responsibility and place of publication), as well as from those who would like it to be a metadata standard suitable for all information communities. Perhaps we need more than one standard: an urber standard, the standard for libraries (AACR3), as well as standards for other specific communities, e.g., museums. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________