Please excuse the cross-posting. I am doing local training for my library on RDA. I have often said that the reason why we are moving to RDA is because this is now our national standard. I have also said that part of the reason for moving to RDA is a first step toward moving us into linked data and the post-MARC environment ... which will likely be Bibframe.
Yesterday's lesson was on the replacement of the GMD to the 336 (content type), 337 (media type), and 338 (carrier type). One of the participants asked me how exactly this change would better prepare our records for moving into the post-MARC/Bibframe world. I explained that the 336, 337, and 338 is an attempt to parse the various concepts out that have been kind of smooshed together over the years in the GMD. And we hope that in our post-MARC environment, that the programs will be able to make better use of these elements. Since Bibframe is not already built for us to exactly see how this will work, it is difficult to know for sure how the catalogs of the future will make use of these elements. I didn't feel like that was a very satisfactory answer, however. I was wondering if anyone out there had any better answers that I can add to this? Thanks kindly, Julie -- Julie Renee Moore Head of Cataloging California State University, Fresno julie.renee.mo...@gmail.com 559-278-5813 “Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”... James Matthew Barrie
