Blog mentions: A one-act play
The curtain rises. Stage right is a large red couch. Stage left is a plain wood desk and a simple wood chair. There is a lamp behind it. A large mirror stands on the floor between the couch and desk.
FRED, a librarian, enters, stage left. He is wearing a black suit. He crosses the stage, stopping to look in the mirror. He adjusts his tie, then turns to the audience.
FRED: Today is the first in a possible series of one-act plays dramatizing blog postings.
FRED goes to the couch and lies down, then turns his head to face the audience.
FRED: Recently Dan Chudnov posted Technical Requirements for Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records on his blog.
DAN CHUDNOV enters stage left and stands at the edge of the stage.
DAN CHUDNOV: It’s a real problem that we have a bunch of people ranting about MARC and RDA and what’s cool about FRBR, but we have very little positive direction about what’s needed from descriptive and other cataloging/metadata from a technical perspective to build good systems. There are a lot of people doing cool work with Solr and replacement OPAC demos these days, so maybe we can start to document a set of unit tests or use cases or functional requirements.
DAN CHUDNOV exits.
SALLY, a librarian with a Manitoba accent, is lowered from the flies and slowly descends to centre stage. She turns on the lamp, then sits behind the desk.
SALLY: Anyone interested in FRBR should be on the Resource Description and Access mailing list. There is more FRBR- and FRAD-related traffic there than on the FRBR mailing list, though of course any FRBR person will want to be on that too.
FRED (sitting up and facing SALLY): Recently there have been interesting comments there from Martha Yee, Karen Coyle, and Jonathan Rochkind.
SALLY: Rochkind posted his e-mail on his blog, too: Two Meanings of “Identifier”. It’s a follow-up to Martha Yee’s comments on FRAD.
FRED: Which are available in the list’s archives, and well worth reading.
SALLY (standing and moving to centre stage): A blogger named Nichole posted FRBR of Love a week ago. She uses love as a way of explaining what FRBR is.
FRED: That’s one of the most unusual explanations of FRBR I’ve ever seen.
SALLY: FRBR. Love.
SALLY and FRED hold out their hands to each other, but are too far apart to touch. They do not move. The curtain falls.