This is good news, and we hope to see RDA in more languages. For us in Arab
libraries community, we eager to see RDA in Arabic, but ALA may have different
opinion!!
As I know, some Arabic organizations asked for Arabic translation of RDA, but
ALA have no response.
We hope to hear good news about RDA soon.
Thanks
Mahmoud Khalifa
President & CEO, the Arabic Portal for Librarianship and Information
PhD., Information Science
+201224894472
mahmoud.khal...@cybrarians.org
www.cybrarians.org
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Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 09:00:12
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Subject: [RDA-L] German and French texts of RDA
You'll probably have heard that the German and French translations of
RDA were to appear with yesterday's (or rather, yesternight's?) update
of the RDA toolkit. In case you wonder where they are: To see them,
you'll have to go to your profile and change the language setting from
"browser default" to the desired language:
http://www.rdatoolkit.org/blog/language_setting
Actually, I had hoped for an easier way to switch between languages.
Even better would have been a possibility to directly compare e.g. the
English and the German version (perhaps by having both texts in two
different windows at the same time). As the translations naturally can
never be quite up-to-date, I think it's important to use them in
combination with the current English text.
Heidrun
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Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A.
Stuttgart Media University
Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi
