Nicky Ransom said - in whole or part - on 19/04/2011 13:31:
> Would it really be workable for national libraries of different countries to implement RDA in different ways?
I think I'd like to respond in the form of a question (or two): why is
implementing RDA in different ways any different from (or more troubling
than) implementing AACR2 in different ways (as happens now, and has done
since the beginning of AACR2 - and well before that, of course...)? Is
there something specific to RDA that means our attitude to "differences"
in its application needs to be much more restrictive than it has been
previously?
And if so, should that attitude apply only to national libraries' data
creation? Is it reasonable to expect one thing from them and another
from the rest of us?
Something to take our minds off the glorious weather outside (well,
outside my window, at least!).
Hugh
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