Re: [RDA-L] German cataloging rules RAK

I must say, I often rely on German cataloging records of individual volumes to sort out multipart sets that aren't described in detail by Anglo-American set records. (Though this may not be much to influence final German RDA implementation decisions ;-) Diana Brooking

Re: [RDA-L] German cataloging rules RAK

I also understood Heidrun's proposed project in the same way that Ed did. As a reader and a cataloger, I would be very interested in not just a translation of RAK into English, but a larger consideration of (past) German cataloging practice interpreted for a non-German audience. I think it

Re: [RDA-L] 370 Russia, Federation ?

I am rather confused about the purpose of the new 3xx fields in authority records. So I share Ben's unease. It seems that the needs of linked data, where you could ideally be using a URI to stand for a place name in a 370, doesn't mesh well with the need to recreate our (basically AACR2)

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

John, that is a beautiful, eloquent explanation, one that works for me. Thank you. Diana Brooking (206) 685-0389 Cataloging Librarian (206) 685-8782 fax Suzzallo Library dbroo...@u.washington.edu University of Washington Box 352900 Seattle WA

Re: [RDA-L] Straight jacket?

Yes, I agree with you Jonathan. *Both* the rules and the machines are tools to try to provide services for patrons. Just the means to an end. I think a lot of the confusion arises because of the very varied environments where our data are living. It's not always clear where the problem

Re: Aesthetics, was: Sentence case vs. Title case

Disclaimer: I don't care that much about capitalization. But Robert Maxwell did bring up an interesting point about aesthetics (pretty records and the professional appearance of catalogs). I have thought about this in relation to RDA itself as a product. Concerns have been expressed about

Re: Future of authority control?

Have you ever used the Internet Movie Database? There they have a simple way of qualifying people, even if it does make people look like kings or popes. Ed Jones (I) Ed Jones (II) Ed Jones (III) I thought of this simple numbering system when CC:DA was discussing how best to qualify names at

Re: RDA its own bad self

As I understand it, the idea is not to have too many *separate* cataloging content standards. If RDA were developed just for some formats but not for all, I think it would be possible that the different standards could begin to really diverge over time, if there were nothing overarching holding

Re: Alternate titles, an example of description broken into bits

I agree that trying to combine both display and access in one field (data element, whatever) is very problematic. I would like to see RDA avoid that. Cataloging Cultural Objects recommends having both controlled fields and free-text fields. They make a distinction between display and indexing.

Re: Response from Karen Coyle and Diane Hillmann to Martha Yee's recent posting

The users tasks you give, and the user tasks in FRBR, seem to me to be too narrow for today's dynamic, networked world. It seems to me that Martha is not suggesting that a catalog should be confined to FRBR tasks alone, but that a catalog should have the data it needs to continue to support

What is an embedded description?

re: RDA Chap. 6 Can anyone explain what an embedded description is? I don't think I understand. But one idea I have... do the other conventions for recording relationships assume that there is a separately existing description/record for the related resource, and that an embedded description

Re: What is an embedded description?

and Access [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of D. Brooking Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 1:40 PM To: RDA-L@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA Subject: [RDA-L] What is an embedded description? re: RDA Chap. 6 Can anyone explain what an embedded description is? I don't think I understand. But one idea I have... do