Thanks Rosemary. We had planned to look specifically at training and 
workflows in the discussion after lunch today so hopefully plenty of 
opportunity to discuss the issues you asked about.

Celine

On Apr 18 2011, Rosemary Stenson wrote:

> I agree with Nicky on this. Whilst I appreciate that there has to be a 
> wider discussion on RDA beyond MARC, for those of us with busy 
> cataloguing departments to run, our initial concern will be in training 
> cataloguers in RDA encoded in MARC.
>
> I certainly feel that it's 'when' rather than 'if' and we are currently 
> looking at beginning to familiarise staff in RDA principles. With 
> implementation not due to 2012 at the earliest we plan to start rolling 
> out initial training sessions in the course of this year. I would be 
> interested in how others are approaching training for their cataloguers.
>
>Rosemary
>
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> ________________________________ From: CIG E-Forum 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nicky Ransom Sent: 18 
> April 2011 10:49 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: RDA in MARC
>
> I agree that RDA has to be seen outside the constraints of MARC to 
> appreciate its full potential and I look forward to the day when the full 
> benefits of FRBR can be realised. But on a day to day basis, for the 
> foreseeable future, MARC is where I will be working and so I need to 
> understand how well RDA will work within MARC as those are the decisions 
> that I will have to make on a day to day basis if and when RDA is 
> implemented.
>
> And I'm sensing that this more of a 'when' than an 'if'. Is that what 
> others are feeling?
>
>Nicky Ransom
>Data Quality Manager & Cataloguer
>The Library
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> communications. From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
> Behalf Of [log in to unmask] Sent: 18 April 2011 10:19 To: 
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>
>¿All
>
>
> I am a member of the CILIP-BL Committee on RDA. The Committee's website 
> is at:
>
>http://www.slainte.org.uk/aacr/index.htm
>
> It's a good place to look for CILIP and BL responses to the RDA 
> development process. It does not contain any information about the RDA 
> tests, etc.
>
> I am also co-Chair of the DCMI RDA Task Group, which is involved in 
> developing a Resource description framework (RDF) representation of RDA 
> for Semantic Web and linked data purposes. Our (very out-of-date) wiki is 
> at:
>
>http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/
>
> I am also a member of the FRBR Review Group, which is also developing an 
> RDF representation of FRBR, FRAD, and FRSAD. Both the RDA and FR "family" 
> classes and properties in RDF can be found on the Open Metadata Registry 
> at:
>
>http://metadataregistry.org/
>
> Note that the metadata "attributes" are in the element set section, while 
> the RDA controlled vocabularies (for content form, carrier type, etc.) 
> are in the vocabularies section. You will need to know a bit about RDF to 
> interpret this stuff.
>
> And I am a member of the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group. Our 
> wiki (very up-to-date) can be found at:
>
>http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Main_Page
>
> I'd be happy to try and answer any questions about RDA, FRBR, and linked 
> data.
>
> I am hoping that discussions do not get bogged down with MARC, as happens 
> on the RDA-L email list. As Celine notes from the Executive Briefings, 
> MARC does not accommodate RDA very well (mainly because it can't do FRBR 
> very well), and RDA is not intended to fit any particular metadata 
> format.
>
>Cheers
>
>Gordon Dunsire
>Freelance Consultant
>
>¿
>

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Céline Carty
English Cataloguing
Cambridge University Library
Cambridge CB3 9DR