Can someone please tell me how to get off of this listserv? Thank you Jo A. Hudson Technical Assistant Logan County Libraries 220 North Main Street Bellefontaine, OH 43311 hudso...@oplin.org 937-599-4189
-----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:rd...@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Bernhard Eversberg Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 8:16 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Interesting conversations about RDA and FRBR ... Weinheimer Jim wrote: > <snip> But first of all, liberate works that are now incarcerated > inside all sorts of "collections" or "multiparts" (whose "workness" > is somewhat dubious). Here, the notion of the (physical) "item" is > really not the best of concepts, in terms of usability of the > catalog, to base a description and a record on. </snip> > > A terrifying possibility, but one that I agree is probably necessary, Without it, the entire RDA reality will remain a half-hearted FRBR incarnation. Unless, of course, we add the concept of second-class works, and make that well understood when confronting the general public with our glittering new WEMI catalogs. > although libraries do not, and will not, have the resources to do it. > I remember working on single volume conference publications that > could take days because each one had dozens of individual papers, and > instead of one item, the single volume became 40 or 60 or more > records. I think the only way it could be done practically would be > through some kind of crowdsourcing. > The crowd of OCLC members would be too small? > Also in this regard, with the recent, and very positive, DMCA changes > and the possibilities to remix, the very notion of implementing > FRBR-type structures for these materials is staggering. Of course, we may have to end up admitting that FRBR proper is a pie-in-the-sky or pipedream, fine in theory but impracticable. B.Eversberg
