We did have a migration issue in moving from the old site to the new
site. Our struggle is designing a navigation for the new site that
guides new users to the (soon to be launched) current information in the
RDA toolkit without confusing them by directing them inadvertently to
the historical drafts.
We have a complete offline archive of all the information on the old
www.rdaonline.org and we are happy to repopulate all of it to the
www.rdatoolkit.org in the next few days in a clearly marked "historical"
area of the new site. We repopulated the constituency review PDFs on
Friday and will repopulate the other PDFs shortly.
I apologize for the inconvenience and concern this migration issue has
caused.
Kind regards,
Troy Linker
Publisher, ALA Digital Reference
American Library Association
(312) 280-5101
www.rdatoolkit.org www.guidetoreference.org
-----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 3:24 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?
>
