Something Mark Lindner Read
Mark Lindner regularly posts on his blog Off the Mark about what he’s been reading. In Some Things Read This Week, 21-27 October 2007 (I’m still catching up on old posts), he points out “Tomorrow Never Knows:” The End of Cataloguing? (337 KB PDF) by Alan Danskin, a paper given at the IFLA 2007 conference in Seoul.
Lindner comments:
I agree that this is an important argument to make but we are in such an awful situation to make it currently. I wonder to what extent this is being fixed in RDA. I’m not too hopeful really. Tillett’s relationships made it into the RDA to FRBR mapping and they say a mapping of RDA to FRAD is due.
But these sorts of relationships and mappings cannot be afterthoughts if they are to work as they should; they must be integral to the system from the beginning. Even if they are being added mid-way that is not the same. JSC documentation says that they considered FRBR from the beginning. Perhaps. But the main problem is that FRBR (as a complete E-R model) is not complete. Both FRBR and RDA is being done piecemeal. And we are to get a coherent system from that process?
Go down into the comments at the bottom of the page for some more interesting stuff.