Re: [RDA-L] Additional work required by RDA

2012-10-23 Thread Amanda Xu
/show/id/45.html; 2) RDA Media Type, http://metadataregistry.org/vocabulary/show/id/37.html; 3) RDA Carrier Type, http://metadataregistry.org/vocabulary/show/id/46.html Thanks a lot for sharing them!!! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Oct 23, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Arakawa, Steven steven.arak

Re: [RDA-L] content type: three-dimensional form vs. tactile three-dimensional form

2012-10-15 Thread Amanda Xu
Thanks! Amanda Xu On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Brenndorfer, Thomas tbrenndor...@library.guelph.on.ca wrote: I think the clearest definition for when “tactile” is used is found in the note in the RDA-ONIX Framework document for sensory modes (which include touch as one of the means by which

Re: [RDA-L] coloured illustrations

2012-10-13 Thread Amanda Xu
, applications, services, etc. It also addresses the granularity problem if frequencies and term-weight are added to the glossary. Hope it helps!!! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Oct 12, 2012, at 7:56 PM, John Hostage host...@law.harvard.edu wrote: Color vs. colored sounds like the kind

Re: [RDA-L] Editor as main entry

2012-10-07 Thread Amanda Xu
can think of on top of my mind without any research. Hope it helps! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Oct 5, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Jack Wu j...@franciscan.edu wrote: So in this regard it's exactly like AACR2?? Somehow while the short explanation given here is clear, I must admit what the RDA says

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-26 Thread Amanda Xu
/ *Cooperative Cataloging Rules* http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/ *Cataloging Matters Podcasts* http://blog.jweinheimer.net/p/cataloging-matters-podcasts.html -- Amanda Xu Apprentice to Information Artistry IT Librarian for Collection Management Still In Progress P.O. Box

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-24 Thread Amanda Xu
and future workforce to be ready for the transition. Catalogers have to be concerned and work in parallel modes, e.g. MARC and RDA/FRBR. Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 24, 2012, at 3:47 AM, James Weinheimer weinheimer.ji...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/09/2012 19:14, Amanda Xu wrote: snip Great

Re: [RDA-L] Consistency and 370 field

2012-09-24 Thread Amanda Xu
the exquisite services we deliver and differ from others. Hope it helps!!! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 24, 2012, at 12:09 PM, John Hostage host...@law.harvard.edu wrote: This is one of the stranger provisions in RDA. In some areas some of us are intent on using authorized access points

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-23 Thread Amanda Xu
. It's important to preserve local specialty and embrace global capability if desired. At least, RDA/FRBR have the potential to get us there. Thanks a billion for the discussions here Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 23, 2012, at 9:08 AM, James Weinheimer weinheimer.ji...@gmail.com

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-22 Thread Amanda Xu
[forum], available from http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/inside-the-architecture-of-googles-knowledge-graph-and-microsofts-satori/ Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 22, 2012, at 5:55 AM, James Weinheimer weinheimer.ji...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/09/2012 18:28, Karen Coyle

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-22 Thread Amanda Xu
to the users, only the available and appropriate copy of the items matched to the users' need are rendered. Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 22, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Pamela Deemer pdee...@gmail.com wrote: Actually there could be another answer to go the catalog: To look for, I've forgotten

Re: [RDA-L] Authority 046 and periods of activity

2012-09-21 Thread Amanda Xu
[ a days:WeekdayInterval ; tl:at 08:00:00^^xsd:time ; tl:end 19:00:00^^xsd:time ] ; Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2012, at 7:42 AM, Moore, Richard richard.mo...@bl.uk wrote: John Thanks for this. In RDA a period of activity can also be a single date; we've tended to use

Re: [RDA-L] Authority 046 and periods of activity

2012-09-21 Thread Amanda Xu
/weightedinterests.html I would hope that we can develop similar techniques to NARs in FRBR and RDA. Thanks again!!! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2012, at 7:42 AM, Moore, Richard richard.mo...@bl.uk wrote: John Thanks for this. In RDA a period of activity can also be a single date

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-21 Thread Amanda Xu
the appropriate the copies for users to access to, and have made the titles discoverable? Thanks! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2012, at 7:09 AM, Keith Trickey kvtric...@yahoo.com wrote: Good point James! I did some training on MARC 21 for an adcemic institution in the South East

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-21 Thread Amanda Xu
, how and when the users needed it, etc. Hope it helps! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2012, at 9:21 AM, Mike Tribby mike.tri...@quality-books.com wrote: I did some training on MARC 21 for an adcemic institution in the South East of England. When I was getting all lyrical about

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-21 Thread Amanda Xu
Mike: Please be positive. It'll be alright and much sooner than you stated. Thanks! Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Mike Tribby mike.tri...@quality-books.com wrote: Assuming relator terms or role indicators are immensely helpful, all the more important

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-21 Thread Amanda Xu
Jack: I called the particular instance as a signal, which I named it as the path to discover, a.k.a. signaling pathways. I did some initial design this summer using entity graphs from Microsoft Academic Search, user social interaction scenario, and other stuff. It's going to be fun! Amanda

Re: [RDA-L] Authority 046 and periods of activity

2012-09-20 Thread Amanda Xu
not hugely interested in the moral and aesthetic aspects ;-) Regards Richard _ Richard Moore Authority Control Team Manager The British Library Tel.: +44 (0)1937 546806 E-mail: richard.mo...@bl.uk -- Amanda Xu Apprentice to Information Artistry IT Librarian

Re: [RDA-L] Authority 046 and periods of activity

2012-09-20 Thread Amanda Xu
, languages, etc. Amanda Xu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2012, at 3:05 AM, Moore, Richard richard.mo...@bl.uk wrote: Thank you Amanda. What we've tended to do at the BL is only to use edtf for things that ISO 8601 can't express, such as approximate and uncertain dates. As 4.1.2.3 c) in the ISO

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging Matters No. 16

2012-09-20 Thread Amanda Xu
. Basically, the choice is ours to make: to administer or be administered in the digital revolutions of the 21st century. -- Amanda Xu Apprentice to Information Artistry IT Librarian for Collection Management Still In Progress P.O. Box 650295 Fresh Meadows, NY 11365 axu...@gmail.com (personal email

Re: [RDA-L] Proposed new 34X fields

2011-06-07 Thread Amanda Xu
I checked the proposal Proposal No. 2011-08: treatment of Controlled Lists of Terms for Carrier Characteristics yesterday. It seemed logical to me. Excellently done! However, I wish that the proposal, if applicable for describing detailed carrier types, had contained some examples encoded for

Re: [RDA-L] FRBRized W/E in HTML Microdata - Editor's Draft 1 June 2011

2011-06-06 Thread Amanda Xu
FYI: http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/Overview.html ... dl itemscope itemtype=http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Work; itemid=http://books.example.com/works/45U8QJGZSQKDH8N; dtTitle/dt ddcite itemprop=http://purl.org/dc/terms/title;Just a Geek/cite/dd dtBy/dt ddspan

Re: [RDA-L] Place of publication in RDA

2011-04-28 Thread Amanda Xu
The proposal that I just submitted will not only serve the purpose for data input suggestion at the time of record creation, but it can also be used for content validation and database cleanup during the record submission at client level and database update at server level. Thanks! Amanda Xu

Re: [RDA-L] Place of publication in RDA (fwd)

2011-04-27 Thread Amanda Xu
constructing a heading for a place name and its larger jurisdiction name. This is just a high level description of how to get there. Sincerely yours, Amanda Xu On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:42 AM, hec...@dml.vic.edu.au wrote: Quoting Danskin, Alan alan.dans...@bl.uk: It is not clear what benefit

Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-26 Thread Amanda Xu
://www.slideshare.net/elephantsmith/subject-access-enhancement-focuson-search-and-categorymap-an-integrated-approach-for-discovery-of-university-resources-and-library-on-the-web-7211376. Thank you so much for showing me the way!!! Sincerely yours, Amanda Xu On 4/26/2011 10:24 AM, Karen Coyle wrote

Re: [RDA-L] Warning about authority record numbers and headings - they DO change

2011-04-26 Thread Amanda Xu
Hi, Mary: Thank you very much for mentioning this issue. If you can come up with a list of reasons why authority records are being deleted, we can add them to record status type, e.g. duplicate heading, etc. It is a controllable issue. Thanks a lot! Amanda On 4/26/2011 11:19 AM, Mary

Re: [RDA-L] RDA/Dublin Core

2011-04-26 Thread Amanda Xu
=eiffel%20tower# 2. Object element in FRBRer Model: http://metadataregistry.org/schemaprop/show/id/1570.html 3. IAP model (2008), available from http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/IAP_Model Sincerely yours, Amanda Xu On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Diane I. Hillmann d

Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging playaways

2011-04-22 Thread Amanda Xu
was “What I do in my local catalog stays in my local catalog”.) Ed *From:* Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] *On Behalf Of *Amanda Xu *Sent:* Friday, April 22, 2011 12:44 PM *To:* RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA

Re: [RDA-L] Conference names : use of annual, etc.

2011-04-19 Thread Amanda Xu
diagnosis and analysis of the library's resources, workflows, etc. is critical. Cheers, Amanda Xu On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Weinheimer Jim j.weinhei...@aur.eduwrote: Hal Cain wrote: snip Yebbut-- the hardest problems of achieving consistency usually arise from the inconsistencies found

Re: [RDA-L] Conference names : use of annual, etc.

2011-04-18 Thread Amanda Xu
for a library. However, this is just an assumption. Actual reports and analysis need to be performed by the library who are adopting RDA. Cheers, Amanda Xu On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:45 PM, John Hostage host

Re: [RDA-L] FW: [RDA-L] Conference names : use of annual, etc.

2011-04-18 Thread Amanda Xu
Dear Sara: Thank you so much for the correction. It is actually about re-cataloging from **serial** to **monograph*.* Amanda Amanda Xu Collection Management Librarian for Information Technology James E. Walker Library Middle Tennessee

Re: [RDA-L] RDA in a non-MARC environment: the eXtensible Catalog

2011-04-15 Thread Amanda Xu
of the ecosystems remember that our core value propositions and social identity in information age started from MARC, etc.. Whatever we do, we need to enhance our core value propositions rather than losing them with TOC (Total cost of ownership) in mind while embracing the new opportunities. Thanks! Amanda

Re: [RDA-L] Authority records per RDA for persons

2011-03-29 Thread Amanda Xu
, and be ready for the challenges and opportunities brought by the information age. That is the strategic direction that PCC should take as far as I am concerned. Thanks! Amanda Xu ^^ Amanda Xu IT Librarian for Collection Management James E. Walker

Re: [RDA-L] RDA Records and changings

2011-03-14 Thread Amanda Xu
helped me to recap what I did three or four years ago. Cheers, Amanda Xu On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Adam L. Schiff asch...@u.washington.eduwrote: RDA records are intended to be compatible with existing records. We are accepting them as is in our catalog and have made the changes

Re: [RDA-L] Standards (Was: Subjective Judgements in RDA 300s????)

2011-03-03 Thread Amanda Xu
Enforcing transcribed data elements using publication and cataloging standards have 1) enabled us to capture the transcribed data in machine-readable form, and 2) facilitated the communication of the data among library systems, especially ILS, ILL, document delivery, 3rd-party apps, and other

Re: [RDA-L] Subjective Judgements in RDA 300s????

2011-03-02 Thread Amanda Xu
Inspired by Diane's message asking us to think outside the box of usual library silo, I would also like us to think inside the box. But the emphasis is to think about how to QUANTIFY the value proposition of the library cataloging services. According to BISG's best practices for data senders,

Re: [RDA-L] RDA and MARC

2011-02-17 Thread Amanda Xu
RDA 337 is from 007/00, which is for category of material and RDA 338 is from 007/01, which is for specific material designation. Catalogers have the option to use code, instead of word to describe 337$b and 338$b. We could make the terms for category of material more user-friendly, e.g. using

Re: [RDA-L] Form

2010-12-15 Thread Amanda Xu
...@psu.edu -- Amanda Xu Collection Management Librarian for Information Technology James E. Walker Library Middle Tennessee State University P.O. Box 13 1301 E. Main Street Murfreesboro, TN 37128 615-904-8510 (office) a...@mtsu.edu(office mail) axu...@gmail.com (personal email)

[RDA-L] Fwd: [RDA-L] Web catalog

2010-12-06 Thread Amanda Xu
-- Forwarded message -- From: Amanda Xu axu...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Web catalog To: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca The real danger of not understanding how data elements

[RDA-L] Fwd: [RDA-L] Web catalog

2010-12-06 Thread Amanda Xu
-- Forwarded message -- From: Amanda Xu axu...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:27 PM Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Web catalog To: kco...@kcoyle.net Cc: RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Quoting Weinheimer Jim

[RDA-L] Fwd: [RDA-L] Web catalog

2010-12-06 Thread Amanda Xu
-- Forwarded message -- From: Amanda Xu axu...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:27 PM Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Web catalog To: kco...@kcoyle.net Cc: RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Quoting Weinheimer Jim

[RDA-L] Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Provider neutral records

2010-10-22 Thread Amanda Xu
...@slc.bc.ca) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__ -- Amanda Xu Collection Management Librarian for Information Technology James E. Walker Library Middle Tennessee State University P.O. Box 13

Re: [RDA-L] Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Provider neutral records

2010-10-22 Thread Amanda Xu
:* Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:rd...@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] *On Behalf Of *Amanda Xu *Sent:* Friday, October 22, 2010 9:39 AM *To:* RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA *Subject:* [RDA-L] Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Provider neutral records Ed: Choosing

Re: [RDA-L] FRBRized data available for bulk download

2010-10-21 Thread Amanda Xu
-size fit all bib records, many innovative approaches or applications or services will be flourished upon the components of a RDA record. Sincerely yours, Amanda *** Amanda Xu Assistant Professor Information Technology Librarian for Collection Management

Re: [RDA-L] RDA Questions - make staging area as Relational Database Management Systems

2010-10-08 Thread Amanda Xu
, and systems types; Hope it helps! Thanks! Amanda Xu Information Technology Librarian for Collection Management James E. Walker Library Middle Tennessee State University P.O. Box 13 1301 E. Main Street Murfreesboro, TN 37128 615-904-8510 (office) a...@mtsu.edu mailto:a...@mtsu.edu(office mail) axu

Re: [RDA-L] Recording Extent, Other Physical Characteristics, and Dimensions for incomplete serials - Long message

2010-09-27 Thread Amanda Xu
in this list, I am still pondering, exploring, learning, creating, contributing, and sharing as I go along. Hope it helps! Cheers, Amanda Xu On 9/23/2010 11:45 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: I have never understood why cataloging standards result in: 300 $a v. Even knowing that stands

Re: [RDA-L] CRCC Informal Test of RDA: An Invitation to Join

2010-09-25 Thread Amanda Xu
by CRCC as a tester will help me link the past with the present for bibliographic control of e-resources. I cannot find the form of your application on the Website. Therefore, I have to post my request publicly. Thank you very much for consideration! Sincerely yours, Amanda Xu On 9/23/2010 4