Hi James, Thanks very much for your useful comments.
I'm not a technical person and thus wouldn't know much about the implications of open-source software. I only know that it's free and that it normally requires a fair amount of programming expertise and effort for customization purposes. What do you think would be the advantages of an open-source software LMS besides the cost benefit? Would you know any non-open-source software LMS that would meet the demands of RDA, XML or MARCXML? Best regards, Su Nee, Goh -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:rd...@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Weinheimer Jim Sent: Friday, 12 February, 2010 12:06 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA requirements in LMS With modern databases, the same record can be exist in various ways. For example, the Koha catalog places the records in a relational database, plus the records exist also in MARCXML that drive the Zebra indexing. To demonstrate this rather vaporous statement, look at the Koha catalog at the John C. Fremont Library District http://jcfld.us.to/ (chosen at random). Do a search and you will see how the Titles, Series, Authors, and so on are extracted and shown in the left-hand column. It also searches so fast that you don't need a stop word list. Best of all, Koha is open-source software, which means that it is free (but certainly not without cost: a server, maintenance, and so on). I would only add to Mr. Lam's excellent advice that eventually it will be important to be able to offer your own web services from your catalog so that your data will be able to interact with all kinds of other data out there. James Weinheimer j.weinhei...@aur.edu Director of Library and Information Services The American University of Rome via Pietro Roselli, 4 00153 Rome, Italy voice- 011 39 06 58330919 ext. 258 fax-011 39 06 58330992 -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:rd...@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Henry Lam Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:55 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA requirements in LMS Dear Su Nee The keyword of RDA is extensibility and interoperability. I would think a xml-based system would be better than a marc-based system. The new system should support integration of traditional collections and digital collections into one catalogue. It should have an open cataloguing workflow with ready tools supporting exporting and importing of records offline. This is to give you more freedom to do mass modification due to change of rules and practice, and ingestion of records from external sources. Regards Henry Lam On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Goh Su Nee <su...@ntu.edu.sg> wrote: > Hi, > > Our Library is considering a change in LMS. > > I've been asked to look into cataloguing requirements, including future ones. > I'm wondering with the upcoming RDA, what are the things I should be looking > out for? > > Your thoughts would be deeply appreciated. > > Thank you. > > Best regards, > Su Nee > ____________________________________________________________________________________________ > Goh Su Nee :: Head, Bibliographic Services Division :: Head, Library > Facilities Planning Division > Nanyang Technological University :: Lee Wee Nam Library :: North Spine 3, 50 > Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 > Phone: (65) 6316 2905 :: Fax : (65) 6791 4637 :: E-mail:su...@ntu.edu.sg:: > http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library > > CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named. The > contents may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended > recipient, please delete it, notify us, and do not copy or use it, nor > disclose its contents. Thank you. > > Towards A Sustainable Earth: Print Only When Necessary >
