As some of you know, the RDA registrars have been working with the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek to enable a German language translation of the RDA elements and vocabularies to be available using the same mechanism as the English original. Today, Veronika Leibrecht, who's been working on this, added a new post to the Registry Blog (http://metadataregistry.org/blog) giving some information on how that process looks close up. A bit of a taste:
/"A prerequisite for the registering of our terms in the NSDL Registry and one of the greatest challenges for the German National Library at the moment is the translation of the RDA elements and vocabularies. Since bibliographic description is executed with a highly specialised vocabulary, we are finding that the process of finding the appropriate terms is interesting but also highly involved. Although the existing German rules for bibliographic description (RAK) and the authority files for subject headings (Schlagwortnormdatei, or SWD) have plenty of vocabulary to offer as equivalents to Anglo-American cataloguing terminology, RDA does include concepts relatively new to bibliographic description." / Do take a look a the post--comments and conversation welcome. Regards, Diane Hillmann
