Three things from yesterday
Just because I didn’t post yesterday doesn’t mean there wasn’t FRBRosity happening at IFLA 2008. I just got busy with stuff, and then there was a huge party where everyone swarmed the tables and ate all the food, then half of the people were driven away by loud disco music and the other half got down with their bad selves on the dance floor.
- I went by the VTLS booth and saw a demo of their FRBRization service I mentioned a little while ago. I was quite impressed. It’s far beyond what any other vendor is doing. I took some pictures but can’t get them uploaded from where I am so my report will have to wait.
- In the American Library Association booth there’s a screencast running that shows how the online Resource Description and Access (RDA) system will look, and some of how it will work. I was told it will get posted on the web soon. There’s no example in the demo of how to actually catalogue an item, I assume because that bit isn’t working yet, especially since RDA isn’t finished, but if it goes well it looks like it could be a good system for managing and customizing a pretty complicated business. The ways workflows can be handled will be worth watching.
- Athena Salaba and Yin Zhang have a poster up about their research project, summarizing the results from their Delphi analysis.