At 01:21 PM 4/2/2009, J. McRee Elrod wrote:
John Attig's Blog on the March meeting of JSC is a live link from the
recently posted Outcomes, and is far more informative. The Blog is
very well written - better than RDA itself in fact. Perhaps John
should be given a free hand with the text.
What primarily struck me about the report is that *significant* changes
are still being made to RDA, which makes me wonder if it is cooked at
this point, or still raw. That said, I don't know that we had this kind
of 'fly on the wall' view of the deliberations around AACR2, so perhaps
this is
The real trick is that we used to assume that once the standard was
'published', no significant chages would be made to it. This may or may
not have been true even in AACR2 -- they started publishing it in a
looseleaf binder for a reason.
But with RDA, I think we have to _plan for_ changes
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
But with RDA, I think we have to _plan for_ changes continually being
made to it even beyond the tweaks made to AACR2.
I'm not exactly sure how we do that, or if either the drafters or the
community have it in their head to expect this, but I think it's the
way it
Agreed entirely.
The 'business model' of RDA development apparently precluded that
though. The worrisome thing to me is that the non-open-access 'business
model' of RDA is a whole additional Big Problem for it's success, even
aside from it's content.
But RDA couldn't have been done unless
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