Re: [RDA-L] Descriptive Cataloging

2012-12-11 Thread Cindy Wolff
We aren't building a retail catalog, we are maintaining a research tool. Thank you for this. Cindy Wolff -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of James Weinheimer Sent: Tuesday, Dec

Re: [RDA-L] Relators for contributors and consultants--Pre-existing poem

2013-03-01 Thread Cindy Wolff
You mean like Beethoven using Schiller's Ode to Joy? Cindy > Bernadette asked: "And if a composer sets a pre-existing poem to music, > what > relator term should the poet get? None of the creator list terms are > available, and 'writer of added lyrics' presumes that the music predates > the

Re: [RDA-L] RDA & CIP

2013-04-12 Thread Cindy Wolff
Isn't CIP data transfer supposed to be part of the automation in this process, especially from a bibframe perspective? Cindy Wolff > Honestly, I never have thought about that CIP is a reliable source. But > maybe I am wrong. Since Ian mentioned translation, I have a Chinese > tr

Re: [RDA-L] 336, 337, 338 and the post-MARC environment

2013-05-09 Thread Cindy Wolff
, but it should be considered a valid data point to whoever may need it. Cindy Wolff From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of James Weinheimer Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 5:06 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.

Re: [RDA-L] The "A" in RDA

2013-07-30 Thread Cindy Wolff
others may not want. I am interested in learning how RDA and Bibframe will develop and how they will translate into the development of new discovery tools. I think we have a new opportunity to provide robust information to our users and our users have a right to be better informed and taught as opposed to being sold something. Cindy Wolff

Re: [RDA-L] "Location" or "venue" needed as RDA relationship designator

2013-10-25 Thread Cindy Wolff
That's a good point Daniel. Or, "host" creates a vision of an alien popping out of the gallery. Cindy Wolff -Original Message- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Starr, Daniel Sent:

Re: [RDA-L] RDA Toolkit Price Change

2013-12-03 Thread Cindy Wolff
"Really? Has anyone out there in the industry even noticed? What *might* get noticed is a change in communication formats, but not in rules." This is what I have been thinking about for a while as I read these discussions: What if we gave a standard and nobody came, but some other powerful, obli

Re: [RDA-L] FRBR

2013-12-06 Thread Cindy Wolff
catalog serves many purposes for many types of users on many levels, which makes it hard to fit into a retail model of "I want it, here it is." The catalog is part of the research process in addition to being a delivery mechanism. Cindy Wolff   > James said: > >>The st

Re: [RDA-L] Automatically adding relationship designators (was Cost of Retrospective Conversion for Legacy Data...)

2013-12-10 Thread Cindy Wolff
t argument back and defend the academic and educational value of the catalog. So, what should the catalog do today? Keep the bullshitters honest. Cindy Wolff > I hesitate to bring this up because most probably everybody already > thinks of me as a purveyor of doom and gloom, but I still believe