- Resource Description and Access (RDA) and New Research Potentials (728 KB PDF), by Shawne D. Miksa, from the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 35: 5, June/July 2009. “The prospect of the relearning of library cataloging by catalogers and the re-engineering of bibliographic control systems is daunting, but we should also consider some of the areas of potential new research that may present themselves as a result of RDA, FRBR, and FRAD.”
- RDA testing sites were announced, and among many others Diane Hillmann commented on it and that her application was turned down. “Much more interesting, to me anyway, is the idea of what RDA records might look like in straight XML or RDF, without the necessity of the contortions involved in making it all ‘fit’ into a MARC system. Without the layer of MARC contortion we might really be able to figure out whether catalogers could adjust to RDA and create FRBR-based records.”
- Helpful Links on RDA, FRBR, and FRAD from the MARS Authority Control blog.
- I mentioned From Rules to Entities: Cataloguing with RDA, a one-day session on 29 May 2009, before the Canadian Library Association conference, last week. The video part of the webcast wasn’t working, but I was told it had been recorded in the room on other cameras, and those videos will go up online soon. I’ll post a link when they do. It was quite an informative day, I heard.
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