Re: [RDA-L] Time and effort

2010-09-04 Thread Weinheimer Jim
Abbas, June M. wrote: snip But, in light of all of these insightful discussions, is linked data even going far enough? Is it really providing users with useful representations of the objects in our collections? Is MARC + FRBR (encoded by whichever standard the community settles for) BUT

Re: [RDA-L] Time and effort

2010-09-04 Thread hecain
Quoting Weinheimer Jim j.weinhei...@aur.edu: It is my own opinion that whatever we produce cannot ever be Enough for what people want and need from information. (Thanks for putting it that way, June!) Those ways of thinking about the catalog are over, and I think, forever. While this may

Re: [RDA-L] Time and effort

2010-09-04 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
That's pretty neat stuff Jim. My Umlaut software approaches from a different direction, taking known items (rather than searches) and trying to find supplementary in other specific databases; for now mostly focusing on finding electronic full-text or searching (which is useful even without

[RDA-L] Bibliography and index

2010-09-04 Thread J. McRee Elrod
RDA 7.16.1.1 (earlier draft) shows the examples: Includes index. Bibliography: pages 859-910. There is no indication of wording to use for footnotes, still Includes bibliographic references? Will most of us be willing to give up the handy: 504 $aIncludes bibliograhic references (p. 859-910)

Re: [RDA-L] Bibliography and index

2010-09-04 Thread Gene Fieg
I was a reader for RDA and I remember reading the example you cite. LC used Includes bibliographical references to cover all types of citations. I remember when I asked a cataloger back in the 80s about using the term bibliography for endnotes; to my mind then they were not bibliographies. We

Re: [RDA-L] Bibliography and index

2010-09-04 Thread Mark Ehlert
J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: RDA 7.16.1.1 (earlier draft) shows the examples: Includes index. Bibliography: pages 859-910. There is no indication of wording to use for footnotes, still Includes bibliographic references? Wording isn't prescribed, nor is any reference(!) made to