21.08.2013 12:30, James L Weinheimer:
When I have mentioned that it was necessary to make sense of the RDA
project in practical terms, or in other words, make a business case,
it was obviously deemed unnecessary.
What's necessary, nonetheless and all the more, will be evaluations,
done by third parties with no shares in this enterprise.
All components of the migration to RDA should be looked at:
-- education
-- workflow
-- per unit costs
-- changes in legacy data; bib records and authority
-- changes in software
-- changes in services and their costs (utilities and such)
-- effects on users: "find", "identify", "select" tasks
(specifically looking at effects of inconsistencies)
-- overall costs
to name some of the more important items.
Only, who's going to commission those evaluations?
Or who's going to be responsible for not doing that?
B.Eversberg
