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Hillmann twofer

Posted by: William Denton, 15 December 2008 7:19 am
Categories: RDA

Two from Diane Hillmann with brief mentions of FRBR amidst much about Resource Description and Access:

  • Show Me the Data!: “I was reminded of this when hearing a developer (who shall remain nameless) say recently that ‘of course you’d never show anyone the FRBR structure’ in an RDA based system. ‘Why the hell not?’ I responded.”
  • Getting There (to be published in the January/February 2009 issue of Technicalities): “MARBI (the MARC standards advisory body) entertained some small proposals to make adjustments to MARC to accommodate RDA, feeding deep denial on the part of those in the cataloging community that fervently hoped that RDA would not require a move to something other than MARC. This was true even as each RDA revision continued to express more explicitly its underlying FRBR model, a model that is not currently accommodated in the MARC record.”

    • Read the Technicalities article, it’s good.