On 11/23/2013 12:53 AM, J. McRee Elrod wrote:
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James said:
Of course, when the time comes for retrospective conversion of the
millions of records in that awful, terrible legacy data ...
Surely you jest. Most of our library clients prefer the awful
terrible 'legacy data' to the strange (to
James Weinheimer wrote:
But if we are to make all of these relators and relationships useful for
the public, the simple undeniable fact is: incredible retrospective
conversions will have to be done and I have never heard of estimates of how
much those will cost. The RDA subscriptions are peanuts
This cataloging consultant/trainer who works with small libraries is piping
in. I am grateful for the price reduction for the rest of us--with the new
pricing structure I can actually get RDA access to these small and rural
libraries.
On the other hand: makes it tough for us on the consortial
Some basic conversion is being done by vendors, though, of course, adding
relationship designators isn't an easily automated process. Just as an
example, here is the announcement from our authorities vendor MARCIVE. I've
left in the contact and marketing information just in case anyone is
Melissa Powell said:
There is no 'choice', the rules have changed.
While there is no choice that we must cope with RDA records derived
from national cataloguing agencies and bibliographic utilities,
several choices do remain:
1) Will RDA be implemented for local original cataloguing? Many
Matt Elrod m...@elrod.ca wrote:
I've already written a script to convert AACR2 to RDA, with some
limitations. For example, it makes a wild guess about 700 $e.
With some refinements and enhancements, I think I could offer
a more robust and generic AACR2-RDA converter, either online
or on demand.
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