> -----Original Message----- > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Weinheimer Jim > Sent: February 9, 2011 3:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA provisions > > Brenndorfer, Thomas wrote: > <snip> > What is the economic advantage to actually recording the data, but not > using it in a more modern way? The effort is already spent in > recording, by someone, somewhere, but not necessarily in linking. If > the only display option in the past was the card catalogue, it's not > much of a leap in understanding why some fields weren't used, but yet > the data was still recorded. > > Or, to put it another way, as institutions cast an eye on other > systems, such as IMDB, that seem to be doing a fantastic job, how can > one argue that libraries can't be doing the same level of quality work- > - cost-effectively!--, especially in a collaborative environment, where > better tools and mechanisms (and standards!) are regularly appearing? > </snip> > > There is still another way of looking at it, today in a modern way, and > that is to actually *cooperate* with other communities such as IMDB. In > the broad scheme of things, if we were going to add relator information > for materials that are already in IMDB, which you say is so great and I > am sure you are correct, this is duplicated effort.
That's the right way to go I think. I look at the IMDB element "Color", with a value "Color". I look at RDA element 7.17.3 "Colour of Moving Image", with a value "colour". RDA, reflecting cataloguing tradition, is a little wiser, in that "Colour of Moving Image" is tied to the expression, and so accounts for variation in the realization of the work right out of the gate. In addition, RDA consolidates all colour attributes for moving images here, for what have been scattered in 300 $b, 007/03, and 500 (for AACR2 7.7B10c). The cross-walk potential is there, though, and a far cry from the hand-wringing over what are mostly style-guide considerations in getting the abbreviations, punctuation, and sequencing exactly correct, as in: $b sd., col. with b&w sequences. Thomas Brenndorfer Guelph Public Library
