Re: [RDA-L] Systems v Cataloging was: RDA and granularity

2010-02-03 Thread Bernhard Eversberg
Weinheimer Jim schrieb: As Tim Berners-Lee said in that wonderful interview that we discussed on one of these lists several months back, to enter this new world, all you have to do is put your data out in a format that is usable for others (e.g. not in a pdf file) and let others know about

Re: [RDA-L] Systems v Cataloging was: RDA and granularity

2010-02-03 Thread Weinheimer Jim
Bernhard Eversberg wrote: snip But we can do that without giving up internal use of MARC. We need never expose MARC to anybody out there, all we need is useful exports and services. And these can be changed any time without changing internal formats. But first of all, as we noted yesterday, right

Re: [RDA-L] Systems v Cataloging was: RDA and granularity

2010-02-03 Thread Bernhard Eversberg
Weinheimer Jim wrote: Yes, we need what is called an Exchange Format, ... Look at WorldCat, they already offer exports (citations) in formats suitable for ReferenceManager or EndNote: TY - CONF DB - /z-wcorg/ DP - http://worldcat.org ID - 148699707 LA - English T1 - The maritime world

Re: [RDA-L] Systems v Cataloging was: RDA and granularity

2010-02-03 Thread Weinheimer Jim
Bernhard Eversberg wrote: snip. Look at WorldCat, they already offer exports (citations) in formats suitable for ReferenceManager or EndNote: TY - CONF DB - /z-wcorg/ DP - http://worldcat.org ID - 148699707 LA - English T1 - The maritime world of ancient Rome : proceedings of The Maritime

Re: [RDA-L] Systems v Cataloging was: RDA and granularity

2010-02-03 Thread Bernhard Eversberg
Weinheimer Jim schrieb: Who knows what some clever people in India or South Africa could do with our records? Well, I should have added that virtually all ILS's *do* already have exports in human-readable form: What else are their OPAC title displays? Mostly they are labeled these days, very

Re: [RDA-L] Systems v Cataloging was: RDA and granularity

2010-02-03 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Ah, but MARC already IS an exchange format, isn't it? Isn't that what we claim it is? Well, I'm kind of being unfair, because we all know it's no longer just that. What I've been suggesting for a while is that MARC has in fact become our technical element vocabulary. (By vocabulary here I do

Re: [RDA-L] About an LDR/18 code vs, 040$erda

2010-02-03 Thread Ed Jones
The only reason I can see to place this in the leader would be if its value affected the handling of the bibliographic record as a whole by the receiving system. As far as I know, in RDA records this would only be true for the presence/absence of ISBD prescribed punctuation, which is handled

[RDA-L] Faculty position, College of Information, University of North Texas

2010-02-03 Thread Miksa, Shawne
***please excuse cross listings*** University of North Texas College of Information Department of Library and Information Sciences Faculty Position: Information Organization The Department of Library and Information Sciences in the College of Information at the University of North Texas