This is a concern of mine, also, and I too would like to understand the publishers' plans for archiving all iterations of RDA and making them accessible.
Robert L. Maxwell Special Collections and Ancient Languages Catalog Librarian Genre/Form Authorities Librarian 6728 Harold B. Lee Library Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 (801)422-5568 -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bothmann, Robert L Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 2:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA websites I'm a little concerned that the constituency review has been removed from rdaonline.org and that there is no re-direct from the previous URL. Scholarly works and presentations have cited this as a source and it is an important part of the history of cataloging code to preserve access to this particular draft. As someone who has referred to various iterations of AACR2 to review how rules have changed over time, the disappearance of the review copy is disturbing. In the same vein, I assume that RDA will be an integrating resource, so what efforts will there be to preserve iterations over time for research purposes? thanks, Bobby Bothmann ________________________________________ From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [[email protected]] on behalf of Troy Linker [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA websites Hi Mark, Thank you for your question. Yes the www.rdatoolkit.org is the new primary website for RDA. The www.rdaonline.org URL is in the process of being redirected to www.rdatoolkit.org. It can take up to 48 hours for this redirection to propagate through the internet. After this time links to www.rdaonline.org will redirect to the new www.rdatoolkit.org and the current website at www.rdaonline.org will no longer be visible. Kind regards, Troy Linker Publisher, ALA Digital Reference American Library Association www.ala.org (312) 280-5101 Mark K. Ehlert wrote: > The most recent message from Troy Linker refers to the website > <http://www.rdatoolkit.org/>, which is new to me. The site I've > visited previously, <http://www.rdaonline.org/>, is still active, but > hasn't been updated with the new pricing information (yet). Is > rdatoolkit.org the primary RDA cataloging rules/RDA Toolkit site now? >
