[Koha] RDA questions WAS: Re: Flippin' Yanks

[Ramon Andiñach]

Non-professional here, so apologies if these are dumb questions. I'm happy to be pointed at links in the right direction.

If I'm understanding correctly, RDA itself is akin to AACR2 in that it contains lists of acceptable terms and how to use them; but different in that it's built on a different data storage framework (FRBR rather than MARC).

I gather from reading that Koha will now deal with FRBR and MARC.

So, I'm wondering;
1. Are many existing library catalogues doing the complete switch to RDA and FRBR, or are most doing the partial switch that Libraries Australia is doing (RDA on MARC)?
2. Would a switch be something that could be automated easily? Say a script that adapts AACR2 records in Koha to RDA records?
3. Would the Z39.50 server standard still service RDA/FRBR records, or just */MARC records? 

Probably got some others, but those are the three running around in my head at the moment.

Cheers,
-ramon.

On 03/10/2013, at 02:25 , glaws wrote:

> RDA! RDA! RDA! RDA! RDA! RDA!
> 
> Greg
> ====================
> On 10/02/2013 01:40 PM, Magnus Enger wrote:
>> tirsdag 1. oktober 2013 skrev glaws følgende:
>> 
>>    This does, of course, present the perfect opportunity for a strong
>>    progressive organization outside the U.S. to step in and become
>>    the New
>>    Marc Master of the World.
>> 
>> 
>> Or we could take it as an opportunity to leave MARC on the scrap heap
>> of history and embrace current technologies instead... :-)
>> 
>> Best regards, 
>> Magnus Enger
>> Libriotech.no
> 
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