From Rules to Entities: Cataloguing with RDA
From Rules to Entities: Cataloguing with RDA, a one-day workshop, is happening today in Montreal, Canada. It’s organized by the Technical Services Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association. Among the speakers are Pat Riva, chair of the FRBR Review Group, and Tom Delsey, who played a large role in creating FRBR.
The whole event is being webcast and you can watch it (rather, listen to it — the video isn’t working) today, free and without registration, or later, because it will be archived.
One of the things that interested me, aside from all the great RDA info, was a question from one of the Canadian participants, asking why Americans are so resistant to RDA. Then, later, an American participant flipped the question and asked why Canadians are going ahead with RDA without a testing phase.
I’d have loved to see good video for the portion that sounded like they were demonstrating the RDA software. I had the same concern as one of the physical participants – the software sounds nice, but it doesn’t seem like it would be easy to teach new catalogers to catalog using it. I also wonder if it’s going to be able to “communicate” with various ILSs. I do most of my cataloging within my library’s ILS rather than using something like OCLC’s Connexion. That’s cumbersome enough, but I can’t imagine having to do that and go back and forth with the RDA software.
Comment by Melissa — 9 June 2009 @ 6:47 pm