Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-31 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Annette Nielsen [aniel...@softlinkint.com] Sent: January-31-12 7:36 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Some comments o

Re: [RDA-L] Some comments on the Final Report of the FRBR Working Group on Aggregates

2012-01-31 Thread Annette Nielsen
Mac said: " And why all the new terminology? What's wrong with "edition", "citation", "main entry", "subject and added entries", etc.? Are we using new jargon to make ourselves feel important? Mystify the uninitiated?" Questions I have been asking since this whole process began. Thank you Ma

Re: [RDA-L] Application profiles - was "Period of activity" - was "Showing birth and death dates"

2012-01-31 Thread Simon Spero
There is definitely room for community specific implementation guidelines without normative force. It might also be useful, where confusion exists, to add examples to RDA proper that prevent overly narrow interpretations; there may also be some benefit to negative examples to restrict overly broa

Re: [RDA-L] Application profiles - was "Period of activity" - was "Showing birth and death dates"

2012-01-31 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
"Dublin core application profiles" were, if I understand it right, supposed to be a specific technical thing, which among other things, was a machine readable/actionable document itself, kind of like a formal schema/vocabulary, but addressing things at an even higher level of abstraction. I ne

Re: [RDA-L] Application profiles - was "Period of activity" - was "Showing birth and death dates"

2012-01-31 Thread Tillett, Barbara
James - When I mentioned there potentially being several "application profiles" for RDA, it was not limited to display issues. You may be familiar with "Dublin Core application profiles" for various communities or projects. Similarly, I would envision an RDA application profile as a document t

Re: [RDA-L] MARC records in a bilingual catalogue

2012-01-31 Thread Brenndorfer, Thomas
>From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access >[RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Hal Cain [hegc...@gmail.com] > Sent: January-31-12 12:13 AM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] MARC records in a bilingual catalogue >>But then, Jim Weinhei

Re: [RDA-L] Considerations on Linked Data (Was: Showing birth and death dates)

2012-01-31 Thread Bernhard Eversberg
28.01.2012 18:03, James Weinheimer: When I look at the famous diagram http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/, with dbpedia in the center of the linked data universe, it has occurred to me: what if dbpedia disappeared or started demanding money to continue operations? If it were only that. Wh