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

[Chris Cormack]

* Ramon Andiñach (custard at westnet.com.au) wrote:
> 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).

Ive never seen RDA implemented in anything other than MARC, I would
love to see it something else. All I have ever seen of RDA in the wild
is MARC21 with some new fields.

> 
> 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)?

That's all I have seen.

> 2. Would a switch be something that could be automated easily? Say a script that adapts AACR2 records in Koha to RDA records?

Nope, thats one of the major problems, there isn't a nice way to move
a record from AACR2 to RDA

> 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.
> 

Basically I am not a fan of RDA in the slightest, I think it is
holding libraries back, not moving them forward. 

https://twitter.com/ranginui/status/369632875689172992

I have a faint hope that Bibframe might provide something more useful
http://bibframe.org/

But I also dread it will suffer the same designed by committees fate
that RDA did. 

People are bound to disagree with me, and that's the great thing about
Koha. They can send patches to implement stuff if they want. But you
won't catch me doing any more work on RDA stuff :)

I'm far more interested in what Oslo Public library are doing with RDF

Chris


> 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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