At 10:37 AM 7/21/2008, Ed Jones wrote:
I don't know how many others see the future this way, but when I think about FRBR and RDA a decade down the road, it's as a structure for linking resource descriptions and, increasingly, resources. I imagine most people will be searching the open web using keywords (in various increasingly sophisticated and machine-assisted combinations), and FRBR/RDA will kick in only when they've discovered a resource of interest. At that point, FRBR/RDA will present them with the _context_ of their resource, giving them a structured choice among the expressions/formats in which the resource is available to them (available based on the user's online identity, which will include their rights), and other works related in various ways to the resource of interest that are also available. In other words, I can see FRBR/RDA thriving, but I don't see library catalogs (other than possibly as linking mechanisms to data about a subset of offline resources).
Thanks, Ed. That's very much the kind of thing I was trying to say in my posts about the FRBR tasks, but obviously didn't do very well... Kevin M. Randall Principal Serials Cataloger Bibliographic Services Dept. Northwestern University Library 1970 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-2300 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (847) 491-2939 fax: (847) 491-4345
