New article on RDA Vocabularies

[Diane I. Hillmann]

Folks:

Some of you who attended ALA Midwinter may have heard me talk about an 
upcoming article in DLib Magazine about the development of the RDA 
Vocabularies.  It's out now, and available at: 
http://dlib.org/dlib/january10/hillmann/01hillmann.html:

Abstract

"The Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, due to be released 
this coming summer, has included since May 2007 a parallel effort to 
build Semantic Web enabled vocabularies. This article describes that 
effort and the decisions made to express the vocabularies for use within 
the library community and in addition as a bridge to the future of 
library data outside the current MARC-based systems. The authors also 
touch on the registration activities that have made the vocabularies 
usable independently of the RDA textual guidance. Designed for both 
human and machine users, the registered vocabularies describe the 
relationships between FRBR, the RDA classes and properties and the 
extensive value vocabularies developed for use within RDA."

We're happy to participate in discussion on the issues raised by the 
article.

Diane Hillmann