[Koha] RDA fields 336, 337, 338

Chris Cormack chris at bigballofwax.co.nz
Sat May 12 10:09:47 NZST 2012


On 12 May 2012 10:04, BWS Johnson <abesottedphoenix at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Salvete!
>
>
>>>      Excepting that they haven't. This was sent out to the GOVDOCS
>> listserv.
>>>
>> Except that they have
>>
>> http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-103111.html
>>
>
>
>     That's from October. This is from today.
>
> http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1205B&L=GOVDOC-L&T=0&F=&S=&P=25864
>
>     I think they're just kicking the can down the road because it's hard. RDA and FRBR are close in spirit to what Koha originally was, and the sort of thing I'd like to see it become again in future.
>
RDA is fine, MARC is broken, the steering committee acknowledge it is
not fit for purpose and RDA + MARC = mess.

RDA done properly would be good, RDA done the way the 26 testers have
tried and rejected, no not so much

Chris


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