Re: [RDA-L] Preferred access points for Expressions

Bernhard Eversberg wrote:  We have to keep in mind that XML as such is not on the same level as  MARC. It is a punctuation standard and as such can only replace ISO2709,  whereas MARC is a grammar and as such can be replaced, in the XML  context, only by a Schema. So I suppose that's what you

Re: [RDA-L] Preferred access points for Expressions

Weinheimer Jim schrieb: I believe that XML formats of MARC are far more flexible than you appear to believe--certainly far more flexible than any ISO2709 head-breaking format. I wouldn't have opted in my article for MARCXML, probably a variant MODS, Dublin Core, or even made up a unique XML

Re: [RDA-L] Preferred access points for Expressions

Bernhard Eversberg wrote: The necessary migration to something new can only  begin on a scale worth mentioning once there is a robust, extensible,  and  well-tested schema that can accomodate all the important elements  and support all the vital functions. Then, nothing convinces more than a  

Re: [RDA-L] Preferred access points for Expressions

Weinheimer Jim wrote: ... If that, who's taking up the challenge? Unfortunately, I believe other organizations are, such as Google. Now the Google approach to making information findable is an _entirely_ different one. For their general search engine, they rely not on metadata at all but on

Re: [RDA-L] Preferred access points for Expressions

Bernhard Eversberg wrote:  Now the Google approach to making information findable is an _entirely_  different one. For their general search engine, they rely not on  metadata at all but on statistical and algorithmic evaluation of text as  it is, and in huge quantities, setting huge arrays of

Re: [RDA-L] Preferred access points for Expressions

Bernhard Eversberg wrote: The new worldview according to RDA is here: http://www.rdaonline.org/ERDiagramRDA_24June2008.pdf That's an entity-relationship diagram. (Can anyone sketch a relational database design based on it? Would that be practicable? Would it scale?) I don't think it's

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