Karen Coyle schrieb:
... RDA purports to be "format neutral" but in fact it is "format hostile" because it forces certain displays (the famed "p." v.
> "pages") that not only do not acknowledge that the data should be > meaningfully encoded for machine processing, but the use of language > terms irrevocably negates RDA as suitable for international use.
For anyone actively involved in library computing, this is self-evident. How, then, could it happen? This has annoyed me enough to suggest English as the working language for German libraries. So far, however, they insist on German. This is somewhat ironic because the decision to migrate to AACR2 and then later RDA was based on an understanding that we should improve international interoperability of our data. Now a large measure of support for interoperability will likely come from the implementation and use of VIAF. This, however, was conceived in pre-RDA times and with the underlying idea that changes in national cataloging rules were unlikely and could be avoided with VIAF... B.Eversberg
