Gordon, All,

I am sorry to hear about your punishing flight schedule Gordon - hope
you are up to taking an active part when you get there!  

I have just started thinking about the content of the two sessions that
have my name attached and I am open to suggestion as to how the RDA
session should be handled.  I think it should be seen as an
introduction, updating and discussion session.  I am happy to
co-ordinate/chair but I really see it as the Diane and Gordon show:-)  

I stand to be corrected but I suspect most attendees will be coming
along to hear what is going on - and we should have a better idea of
what the project consists of and how it is progressing by then.  Is
there a specific output we want from this meeting?  Last year we were
seeking feedback for Diane to take to JSC. Do you see this year as an
opportunity to recruit volunteers, gather feedback etc. or more as a
dissemination exercise?  My rather pedestrian suggestion is to do past,
present and future + discussion.

1) Background - a tale of two philosophies: AACR-RDA, DCAM and RDF - up
to the London meeting.
2) Current position - the work in the project proposal, where we are,
who is doing what and how.
3) Future developments - what comes next
4) Discussion 

Any thoughts?

Best,
Robina


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Sent: 20 June 2007 14:03
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Subject: Update

Dear all
 
1. I have now registered for DC2007 and booked my flights and
accommodation. I will have to miss the first day of the conference
proper to give me enough time to recover after IFLA in Durban; the need
to keep expenses down means I have to fly Edinburgh-Durban return, then
immediately followed by Edinburgh-Singapore (single tickets would have
doubled the cost).
 
So I will miss the session on Collections, which is a pity. But I'll be
ok for the RDA session, and the Advisory Board on Saturday. Robina:
please let me know what you want me to do in respect of the RDA session.
 
I'm booked in to the Intercontinental. The travel and accommodation have
exhausted the budget allocated by JSC, unless the US dollar makes a
significant recovery against the British pound. CDLR has agreed,
however, that I should not starve, and will make up any additional
expenses. I have been talking to Diane Hillman about the possibility of
assisting in her metadata decisions workshop to get some additional
funding.
 
2. I have just returned from giving a presentation on RDA to the IFLA
Libraries for the Blind Section workshop on Daisy (Digital Accessible
Information System) cataloguing in Helsinki, Finland. See
http://www.daisy.org/ for more about Daisy. The consortium is developing
a global standard for metadata for digital talking books. They have
already settled on using Dublin Core, so the cataloguers were very
interested in the news about the work proposed for the DCMI Resource
Description and Access Task Group. The vocabularies for content and
carrier type proposed in RDA are of particular interest, especially if
the equivalent RDA/ONIX framework values can be used to restrict union
catalogue searches to exclude resources requiring visual intermediation.
There was also interest in using, if appropriate, the proposed RDA
application profile.
 
3. As you will have seen, I have added all members of the RDA Joint
Steering Committee to this list. If you wish to add any
technically-minded colleagues, please let me know.
 
Cheers
 
Gordon

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