Tufts University has not retrospectively edited our records to RDA. We have a
mix of AACR2, RDA, and Hybrid records in our catalog. With current ILS
systems, it does not greatly affect user access. However, after we transition
to a new ILMS next month, we may implement an automated synchronization with
OCLC, which would replace records with the most recent version on WorldCat.
This would turn most of our records into at least the hybrid records now
available on WorldCat.
I know that MarcEdit is RDA compliant, and includes an RDA Helper to assist in
converting records to RDA standard. Gary Strawn's Authority Toolkit is,
naturally, RDA compliant, since it was designed specifically for RDA authority
records. I don't use any other MARC programming libraries. I expect that
quite a few MARC libraries are woefully behind the times; some have probably
not been updated since well before RDA. This is not really an RDA problem.
One should always be wary of software that does not keep up with changes in the
standard. MARC has never been static.
Steve McDonald
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric
Lease Morgan
Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 11:14 AM
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] rda
To what degree have any of us done massive RDA work in our catalogs, and
similarly, to what degree have some of the community's MARC programming
libraries have been modified to account for RDA rules?
For example, has anybody done any large scale find & replace operations against
their catalogs to create RDA fields with values found in other MARC fields? Why
or why not? Similarly, RDA seems to define a publication field in MARC 264.
Correct? Yet the venerable Perl-based MARC::Record module (still) pulls
publication dates from MARC 260. [1] A colleague found a bit of a discussion of
this issue from the VuFind community. [2] Which leaves me to ask another
question, “Why is there so much business logic embedded into the MARC
cataloging rules?”
Alas. How in the world is the library community ever going to have more
consistently encoded data so it can actually disseminate information?
[1] MARC::Record - http://bit.ly/2px2sC6 [2] discussion -
https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-749
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Eric Morgan
