Re: [RDA-L] When will RDA truly arrive? Will it truly arrive?

2013-01-27 Thread Amanda Xu
iance to citation managers of the disciplines. Thanks! Amanda Xu On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Moore, Richard wrote: > ** > Carole > > I recognise your characterisation of cataloguers. For years our > struggle, if you can call it that, has been to persuade cataloguers

Re: [RDA-L] Additional work required by RDA

2012-10-23 Thread Amanda Xu
.org/vocabulary/show/id/45.html; 2) RDA Media Type, http://metadataregistry.org/vocabulary/show/id/37.html; 3) RDA Carrier Type, http://metadataregistry.org/vocabulary/show/id/46.html Thanks a lot for sharing them!!! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Oct 23, 2012, at 1:27 PM, "Arakawa, Steven&

Re: [RDA-L] content type: three-dimensional form vs. tactile three-dimensional form

2012-10-15 Thread Amanda Xu
taste smell gesture other Thanks! Amanda Xu On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Brenndorfer, Thomas < tbrenndor...@library.guelph.on.ca> wrote: > I think the clearest definition for when “tactile” is used is found in the > note in the RDA-ONIX Framework document for sensory modes (which i

Re: [RDA-L] "coloured illustrations"

2012-10-13 Thread Amanda Xu
, applications, services, etc. It also addresses the granularity problem if frequencies and term-weight are added to the glossary. Hope it helps!!! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Oct 12, 2012, at 7:56 PM, John Hostage wrote: > Color vs. colored sounds like the kind of distinction that we

Re: [RDA-L] Editor as main entry

2012-10-07 Thread Amanda Xu
this is what I can think of on top of my mind without any research. Hope it helps! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Oct 5, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Jack Wu wrote: > So in this regard it's exactly like AACR2?? Somehow while the short > explanation given here is clear, I must admit what

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-26 Thread Amanda Xu
es I just mentioned assumes you start from > scratch and redo everything. With a single book or set of books as I > postulate here, that may be achievable although much more difficult than it > may sound, but doing anything similar with millions of catalog records > created over the decades (or

Re: [RDA-L] Consistency and 370 field

2012-09-24 Thread Amanda Xu
That's the exquisite services we deliver and differ from others. Hope it helps!!! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 24, 2012, at 12:09 PM, John Hostage wrote: > This is one of the stranger provisions in RDA. In some areas some of us are > intent on using authorized access points i

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-24 Thread Amanda Xu
nt existing and future workforce to be ready for the transition. Catalogers have to be concerned and work in parallel modes, e.g. MARC and RDA/FRBR. Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 24, 2012, at 3:47 AM, James Weinheimer wrote: > On 23/09/2012 19:14, Amanda Xu wrote: > >> Gr

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-23 Thread Amanda Xu
that I described to the list a few days ago. It's important to preserve local specialty and embrace global capability if desired. At least, RDA/FRBR have the potential to get us there. Thanks a billion for the discussions here Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 23, 2012, at 9:08 AM

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-22 Thread Amanda Xu
o the users, only the available and appropriate copy of the items matched to the users' need are rendered. Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 22, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Pamela Deemer wrote: > Actually there could be another answer to go the catalog: To look for, I've > fo

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-22 Thread Amanda Xu
"understand" the Web. arstechnica technology lab and info tech [forum], available from http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/inside-the-architecture-of-googles-knowledge-graph-and-microsofts-satori/ Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 22, 2012, at 5:55 AM, Ja

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-21 Thread Amanda Xu
Jack: I called the particular instance as a signal, which I named it as the path to discover, a.k.a. signaling pathways. I did some initial design this summer using entity graphs from Microsoft Academic Search, user social interaction scenario, and other stuff. It's going to be fun! A

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-21 Thread Amanda Xu
Mike: Please be positive. It'll be alright and much sooner than you stated. Thanks! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Mike Tribby wrote: > "Assuming relator terms or role indicators are immensely helpful, all the > more important they be

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-21 Thread Amanda Xu
d for detailed study, how and when the users needed it, etc. Hope it helps! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2012, at 9:21 AM, Mike Tribby wrote: > "I did some training on MARC 21 for an adcemic institution in the South East > of England. When I was getting all lyrical a

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-21 Thread Amanda Xu
appropriate the copies for users to access to, and have made the titles discoverable? Thanks! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2012, at 7:09 AM, Keith Trickey wrote: > Good point James! > > I did some training on MARC 21 for an adcemic institution in the South East > of England

Re: [RDA-L] Authority 046 and periods of activity

2012-09-21 Thread Amanda Xu
rge.net/wi/spec/weightedinterests.html I would hope that we can develop similar techniques to NARs in FRBR and RDA. Thanks again!!! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2012, at 7:42 AM, "Moore, Richard" wrote: > John > > Thanks for this. In RDA a period of activity can also

Re: [RDA-L] Authority 046 and periods of activity

2012-09-21 Thread Amanda Xu
[ a days:WeekdayInterval ; tl:at "08:00:00"^^xsd:time ; tl:end "19:00:00"^^xsd:time ] ; Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2012, at 7:42 AM, "Moore, Richard" wrote: > John > > Thanks for this. In RDA a period of activity can also be a sin

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-20 Thread Amanda Xu
we didn't do in the past. Basically, the choice is ours to make: to administer or be administered in the digital revolutions of the 21st century. -- Amanda Xu Apprentice to Information Artistry & IT Librarian for Collection Management Still In Progress P.O. Box 650295 Fresh Meadows, NY 1136

Re: [RDA-L] Authority 046 and periods of activity

2012-09-20 Thread Amanda Xu
tions, languages, etc. Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2012, at 3:05 AM, "Moore, Richard" wrote: > Thank you Amanda. What we've tended to do at the BL is only to use edtf for > things that ISO 8601 can't express, such as approximate and uncertain dates. > As 4.1

Re: [RDA-L] Authority 046 and periods of activity

2012-09-19 Thread Amanda Xu
en > persons. But I'd be interested to know whether people think this is a good > idea, or a bad idea, and why. > > This is a practical question of RDA application, so I'm not hugely > interested in the moral and aesthetic aspects ;-) > > > Regards > Richard > __

Re: [RDA-L] Proposed new 34X fields

2011-06-07 Thread Amanda Xu
I checked the proposal "Proposal No. 2011-08: treatment of Controlled Lists of Terms for Carrier Characteristics" yesterday. It seemed logical to me. Excellently done! However, I wish that the proposal, if applicable for describing detailed carrier types, had contained some examples encoded for mu

Re: [RDA-L] FRBRized W/E in HTML Microdata - Editor's Draft 1 June 2011

2011-06-06 Thread Amanda Xu
FYI: http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/Overview.html ... http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Work"; itemid="http://books.example.com/works/45U8QJGZSQKDH8N";> Title http://purl.org/dc/terms/title";>Just a Geek By http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator";>Wil Wheaton Format http://purl.org/vocab/frb

Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-28 Thread Amanda Xu
Ed: We have been using similar techniques for years in ILS. Not all the indexed fields are displayable. A typical example for an identifier is that when an application makes an outbound linking request(s) for a journal by ISSN, it does not know if the target system is using 022$a or 022$y f

Re: [RDA-L] Place of publication in RDA

2011-04-28 Thread Amanda Xu
The proposal that I just submitted will not only serve the purpose for data input suggestion at the time of record creation, but it can also be used for content validation and database cleanup during the record submission at client level and database update at server level. Thanks! Amanda Xu

Re: [RDA-L] Place of publication in RDA (fwd)

2011-04-27 Thread Amanda Xu
alogers with decision making in the choice of form when constructing a heading for a place name and its larger jurisdiction name. This is just a high level description of how to get there. Sincerely yours, Amanda Xu On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:42 AM, wrote: > Quoting "Danskin, Alan&

Re: [RDA-L] RDA/Dublin Core

2011-04-26 Thread Amanda Xu
are the metadata strategies that I see how to fit RDA and DC in your DAM for photograph collections only. Hope it helps! Have fun! Thanks a million for the great questions! *Notes:* 1. Check how the concept term of Eiffel Tower in Google Image Swirl - http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/html?quer

Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-26 Thread Amanda Xu
Hi, Mary: Thank you very much for mentioning this issue. If you can come up with a list of reasons why authority records are being deleted, we can add them to record status type, e.g. duplicate heading, etc. It is a controllable issue. Thanks a lot! Amanda On 4/26/2011 11:19 AM, Mary Ma

Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-26 Thread Amanda Xu
ound in Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/elephantsmith/subject-access-enhancement-focuson-search-and-categorymap-an-integrated-approach-for-discovery-of-university-resources-and-library-on-the-web-7211376. Thank you so much for showing me the way!!! Sincerely yours, Amanda Xu On 4/26/2011 10

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging playaways

2011-04-22 Thread Amanda Xu
ded audio player”. > > > > (I should mention in response to an earlier post that what I meant to say > was “What I do in my local catalog stays in my local catalog”.) > > > > Ed > > > > *From:* Resource Description and Access / Resource Description a

Re: [RDA-L] Conference names : use of annual, etc.

2011-04-19 Thread Amanda Xu
t right, doctor-like diagnosis and analysis of the library's resources, workflows, etc. is critical. Cheers, Amanda Xu On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Weinheimer Jim wrote: > Hal Cain wrote: > > Yebbut-- the hardest problems of achieving consistency usually arise > from the i

Re: [RDA-L] FW: [RDA-L] Conference names : use of annual, etc.

2011-04-18 Thread Amanda Xu
Dear Sara: Thank you so much for the correction. It is actually about re-cataloging from **serial** to **monograph*.* Amanda Amanda Xu Collection Management Librarian for Information Technology James E. Walker Library Middle Tennessee

Re: [RDA-L] Conference names : use of annual, etc.

2011-04-18 Thread Amanda Xu
burden for a library. However, this is just an assumption. Actual reports and analysis need to be performed by the library who are adopting RDA. Cheers, Amanda Xu On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:45 PM, John Hostage wrote: &

Re: [RDA-L] RDA in a non-MARC environment: the eXtensible Catalog

2011-04-15 Thread Amanda Xu
with TOC (Total cost of ownership) in mind while embracing the new opportunities. Thanks! Amanda Xu On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Bernhard Eversberg wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Sanchez, Elaine R > wrote: > > Bernhard Eversberg – what do you think about this? Is it

Re: [RDA-L] Authority records per RDA for persons

2011-03-29 Thread Amanda Xu
rofession to survive, and be ready for the challenges and opportunities brought by the information age. That is the strategic direction that PCC should take as far as I am concerned. Thanks! Amanda Xu ^^^^^^^^^^ Amanda Xu IT Librarian for Collection Managemen

Re: [RDA-L] RDA Records and changings

2011-03-14 Thread Amanda Xu
discussion helped me to recap what I did three or four years ago. Cheers, Amanda Xu > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Adam L. Schiff > wrote: > >> RDA records are intended to be compatible with existing records. We are >> accepting them as is in our catalog

Re: [RDA-L] RDA and music

2011-03-10 Thread Amanda Xu
Dear Gene: I checked the answer to your question from the perspective of a library user or application who is seeking a music album titled "Live in Glenfarg" by Jim Malcolm, exploring how linked data technologies provided by LC, OCLC, and other music metadata services such as MusicBrainz.org, Yah

Re: [RDA-L] Standards (Was: Subjective Judgements in RDA 300s????)

2011-03-03 Thread Amanda Xu
Enforcing transcribed data elements using publication and cataloging standards have 1) enabled us to capture the transcribed data in machine-readable form, and 2) facilitated the communication of the data among library systems, especially ILS, ILL, document delivery, 3rd-party apps, and other syste

Re: [RDA-L] Subjective Judgements in RDA 300s????

2011-03-02 Thread Amanda Xu
Inspired by Diane's message asking us to think outside the box of usual library silo, I would also like us to think inside the box. But the emphasis is to think about how to QUANTIFY the value proposition of the library cataloging services. According to BISG's best practices for data senders, ill

Re: [RDA-L] RDA and MARC [027/088]

2011-02-17 Thread Amanda Xu
lude (quoted? nonquoted?) 500 >> note(s) >> + 027/088(s)? LC's "Choices in RDA" would have me think that there would >> only be a MARC 027/088, with no accompanying note. >> >> Take care, >> Paul Burley >> >> Paul R. Burley >>

Re: [RDA-L] RDA and MARC

2011-02-17 Thread Amanda Xu
RDA 337 is from 007/00, which is for category of material and RDA 338 is from 007/01, which is for specific material designation. Catalogers have the option to use code, instead of word to describe 337$b and 338$b. We could make the terms for "category of material" more user-friendly, e.g. using

Re: [RDA-L] Form

2010-12-15 Thread Amanda Xu
; different tasks. > > I did Voyager Top 20 Search Keys report on Feb. 27, 2010, and found that publisher's name was in the rank. It was used in ACQ Client Staff Mode as the index was only made available to that client. I am wondering if we can increase the usage of the field if we made

[RDA-L] Fwd: [RDA-L] Web catalog

2010-12-06 Thread Amanda Xu
-- Forwarded message -- From: Amanda Xu Date: Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:27 PM Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Web catalog To: kco...@kcoyle.net Cc: RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Quoting Weinheimer Jim : > > > >> Additi

[RDA-L] Fwd: [RDA-L] Web catalog

2010-12-06 Thread Amanda Xu
-- Forwarded message -- From: Amanda Xu Date: Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:27 PM Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Web catalog To: kco...@kcoyle.net Cc: RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Quoting Weinheimer Jim : > > > >> Additi

[RDA-L] Fwd: [RDA-L] Web catalog

2010-12-06 Thread Amanda Xu
-- Forwarded message -- From: Amanda Xu Date: Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Web catalog To: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access < RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca> The real danger of not understanding how data elements we crea

Re: [RDA-L] Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Provider neutral records

2010-10-22 Thread Amanda Xu
likelihood be that we continue to muddle through with the tools and the data > we’ve got, or some compatible successors. > > > > Thanks again. > > > > Ed > > > > *From:* Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:rd...@l

[RDA-L] Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Provider neutral records

2010-10-22 Thread Amanda Xu
f the library ceases to subscribe to that provider. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca <mailto:m...@slc.bc.ca>) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__ --

Re: [RDA-L] FRBRized data available for bulk download

2010-10-21 Thread Amanda Xu
structure to liberate our one-size fit all bib records, many innovative approaches or applications or services will be flourished upon the components of a RDA record. Sincerely yours, Amanda ******* Amanda Xu Assistant Professor Information Technology Li

Re: [RDA-L] RDA Questions - make staging area as Relational Database Management Systems

2010-10-08 Thread Amanda Xu
systems types; Hope it helps! Thanks! Amanda Xu Information Technology Librarian for Collection Management James E. Walker Library Middle Tennessee State University P.O. Box 13 1301 E. Main Street Murfreesboro, TN 37128 615-904-8510 (office) a...@mtsu.edu <mailto:a...@mtsu.edu>(office mai

Re: [RDA-L] Recording Extent, Other Physical Characteristics, and Dimensions for incomplete serials - Long message

2010-09-27 Thread Amanda Xu
htm>, ILS vendors and libraries have to come up with internal policy and procedures to work around again. Sorry about the long message!!! Like everyone else in this list, I am still pondering, exploring, learning, creating, contributing, and sharing as I go along. Hope it helps! Cheers,

Re: [RDA-L] CRCC Informal Test of RDA: An Invitation to Join

2010-09-25 Thread Amanda Xu
local policy and procedures. Participating the informal test RDA organized by CRCC as a tester will help me link the past with the present for bibliographic control of e-resources. I cannot find the form of your application on the Website. Therefore, I have to post my request publicly. Thank you