Blog roundup
Some nice things I’ve missed:
- Jenn Riley, Musings On RDA, LC Working Group Report, and Various Other Random Things: “For example, the OCLC response touts its FRBR work as testing the WG didn’t realize was happening, but it glosses over the fact that the Work-level clustering and other FRBR-like things OCLC has been doing aren’t true FRBR implementations.”
- Christine Schwartz, ALA Midwinter: Library of Congress Working Group Report: “Having just been released a few days before, the LC working group’s report, On the Record, was a hot topic at the conference. Rather that walk through this session point by point. I’ll try to pull out some of the highlights of this highly anticipated forum.”
- Thom Hickey, What People Skip: “Jenny and I have been looking at differences in the WorldCat.org FRBR clustering and the clustering we do here in Research. Ideally we’d like them to be the same, but we keep fussing with ours in Research, so we knew there would be differences.”
- Mike Simpson, Facets, FRBR, And Bibliographic Data Modeling: “Also for this discussion, ‘FRBR’ means something like, ‘note the fact that the English translation of this Shakespeare compendium, and the German edition, are really just two variant representations of the same thing.’”
- Jessi M. Librarian, FRBR! Finally!: “Library vendors have struggled with the concept for a long time, and haven’t found a good way to implement the logic to make this happen. The wait is over for libraries! Library Thing for Libraries offers an catalog add-on option that will do exactly what Amazon has been doing for a very long time.”
- A comment to the above: “Please check out how we do FRBR in AquaBrowser at Carroll County. Search for Scarlet Letter in their catalog and see how the results are already rolled up to show 1 record for 8 versions editions.”
- Peter Zimmerman, FRBR and Music Recordings: “And although Bryant’s book [Music Librarianship: A Practical Guide ] is getting a little old (the second edition I’m reading was 1985; the first, 1959), I find myself anticipating FRBR.”
- Karen Schneider, They Tried to Make Me Go to FRBR, I Said No, No, No: “We do NOT need to stop RDA; we need to implement FRBR and get it right, not ‘test; it more; and we do NOT need to do years more of ‘user testing’ to teach us what we already know.”
- Dan Chudnov, WoGroFuBiCo Doesn’t Go Far Enough: “… until such time as we have been able to catch up on all of our other obligations and professional responsibilities and newly devote the full and complete community attention each of these critical developments vital to the future of our entire profession deserves. And testing, lots of testing, too, we can’t forget that (see 4.2.1 below).”