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The question of downloaded records is something I'm seriously worried about. Interesting what you say about hybrid records, though, Bernadette - perhaps it would be good to consider which bits of the record are really important to get right and which, like p. or pages, are not so vital for discovery purposes. Lots to think about, that's for sure. Nicky Ransom Data Quality Manager & Cataloguer University for the Creative Arts ________________________________ From: CIG E-Forum [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Bernadette Mary O'Reilly [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 25 October 2012 15:46 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] RDA and workflows My greatest concern is about how we are to use downloaded records - AACR2 records, hybrids and RDA records which have adopted options to be much less full – and edit existing AACR2 records once people here have lost their AACR2 skills. We don’t have the resources to support multiple standards, nor to do detailed record-by-record assessments and remodellings. Also, quite a lot of our records are added in batches of thousands. I expect that in order to maintain throughput we will have to accept a lot of variation and hybridisation, and quite possibly produce hybridsof our own (!!!!), i.e. editing AACR2 records using RDA instructions. I don’t think it will really affect users if we write ‘pages’ in a record coded as AACR2, but I am more concerned about structural incompatibilities, e.g. treatment of revisions, compilations and collaborations, where there is some risk of producing gappy or incoherent records. Has anyone else got plans for their downloading strategies? And what about the H-word (hybridisation)? Best wishes, Bernadette ******************* Bernadette O'Reilly Catalogue Support Librarian 01865 2-77134 Bodleian Libraries, Osney One Building Osney Mead Oxford OX2 0EW. ******************* From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jackie Johnson (Library Services) Sent: 25 October 2012 15:35 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [CIG-E-FORUM] RDA and workflows Just a general question/observation. What are people’s views about the adoption of RDA impinging greatly on productivity, or am I being end of dayish negative? We’re very concerned here on how it’s going to slow us down whilst at the same time we are battling with increasing amounts of material to catalogue. Apologies if this is off topic. Jackie Johnson Metadata Coordinator University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 0121-414-2767 Please note I do not work Mondays