See also the thread, 'RDA: A Standard Nobody Will Notice'. http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg04422.html
A standard nobody will notice ... for good reason. Rob On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 18:24 +0100, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > > > Absolutely. The catalogers are still creating a textual document, not > > data. At best you can mark up the text, as we do with the MARC > > record... > > > Listen... What you hear from over here is the sound of a very heavy > sigh coming from a computer type who really wants to help improve the > way library data is used in a networked environment, but they can't > convince their own to modify the way they encode information. >