Registry blog post of interest ...

[Diane I. Hillmann]

As some of you know, the RDA registrars have been working with the 
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek to enable a German language translation of 
the RDA elements and vocabularies to be available using the same 
mechanism as the English original.  Today, Veronika Leibrecht, who's 
been working on this, added a new post to the Registry Blog 
(http://metadataregistry.org/blog) giving some information on how that 
process looks close up.  A bit of a taste:

   /"A prerequisite for the registering of our terms in the NSDL
   Registry and one of the greatest challenges for the German National
   Library at the moment is the translation of the RDA elements and
   vocabularies.  Since bibliographic description is executed with a
   highly specialised vocabulary, we are finding that the process of
   finding the appropriate terms is interesting but also highly
   involved. Although the existing German rules for bibliographic
   description (RAK) and the authority files for subject headings
   (Schlagwortnormdatei, or SWD) have plenty of vocabulary to offer as
   equivalents to Anglo-American cataloguing terminology, RDA does
   include concepts relatively new to bibliographic description."

   /

Do take a look a the post--comments and conversation welcome.

Regards,
Diane Hillmann