Re: Moving out of RDA

Wednesday, January 9, 2008 It seems to me that a premise of RDA is that the cataloging community must "catch up" with information technology or go down the drain. Does anyone doubt that information and database technology will continue to expand faster than RDA's developers can dream? For examp

Re: Moving out of RDA

J. McRee Elrod wrote: Some of that energy going into RDA could be devoted to upstream harvesting, crosswalks, interoperability, classed subject retrieval, and dealing with the redundancies and lacunae in MARC21. At least during the near future, I suspect more would be gained through this sort

Announcement: Resource Description and Access (RDA) Update Forum at the ALA Midwinter

From: Norm Medeiros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Announcement: Resource Description and Access (RDA) Update Forum at the ALA Midwinter Dear Colleagues, You are cordially invited to attend the Resource Description and Access (RDA) Update Forum at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.

Re: More on RDA literal/non-literal issue

<>> [Karen, thanks very much for this analysis. I added this as a comment on your blog but I'm not sure if it registered so I'll post it here too] One initial comment: I've been going back over the DCAM document and I don't think your d

Re: 2007 Annual MARBI Meeting Minutes Now Available

>The 2007 Annual MARBI Meeting minutes are now available online at: >www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/minutes/an-07.html These are beautifully written minutes. All persons are identified. All acronyms are defined. The writing is clear, concise, jargon free, comprehensible, and well organized. Any chan

Re: More on RDA literal/non-literal issue

-Original Message- Irvin Flack wrote: So the first step for RDA should be to decide whether the value (in the abstract sense of the DCAM Resource Model) for each property is a literal or a non-literal. Then we can say whether the value should be represented by a literal surrogate (if a l

Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Update Forum

Please join us for the ALCTS Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Update Forum 1/14/2008 Monday 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm Pennsylvania Convention Center #109 B Our Agenda includes: LC/ISSN report by Regina Reynolds, Library of Congress CONSER report by Les Hawkins, CONSER CC:DA report by K