Chris:
The notes are attached--they include some notes by Gordon Dunsire (who
gave permission for me to pass this on). I hope it helps--there's
certainly opinion here, but I'm not sure it rises to the level of
perspective!
Good luck,
Diane
On 2/22/10 6:59 PM, BEER,Chris wrote:
> Hi Jim, Diane, Alan
>
> Thanks for your prompt responses!
>
> @Jim - thanks for the links - we may have some legacy MARC information to consider, so these will be useful resources.
>
> @Diane - thanks for the response - I'd be interested in the comments to made at the time, they may put the draft mapping into better perspective for me :)
>
> @Alan - thankyou so much! I'm sure that it will be fairly easy to look at the mapping with the changes on the RDA side in mind.
>
> I will be sure to pass on any output generated by our usage of the draft mapping for comment as well - prehaps you'll find a use for it or be able to highlight any improvements or problems. Early days for us here so we'll see how I go!
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> Cheers
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: List for discussion on Resource Description and Access (RDA) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Danskin, Alan
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 3:53
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> Subject: Re: [RDA-L] G'day and question regarding RDA mapping to DC
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> Dear Chris,
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> A decision was taken last year not to include an RDA/DC mapping in the first release of RDA. This was disappointing, but there were too many issues still to be resolved and it was difficult to do that while RDA was still being developed.
>
> I have attached copies of the documents that Diane referred to 1) Draft mapping RDA to Dublin Core; 2) Notes on the mapping.
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> There are two important caveats: a) this was a working draft and that it has not been subsequently developed; b)it was based on a draft of RDA which differs from the final text.
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> I understand that Diane will share her comments on the mapping with the list. I appreciate that this is probably rather more tentative than you were hoping for, but perhaps making this available will stimulate further discussion.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: List for discussion on Resource Description and Access (RDA) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Diane I. Hillmann
> Sent: 22 February 2010 14:41
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [DC-RDA] [RDA-L] G'day and question regarding RDA mapping to DC
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> Chris:
>
> There was supposed to be a map of RDA to DC issued with the first release of RDA, but I think the decision was made not to put it out quite yet. I got a chance to look at it and provide some comments--in general my comments were designed to eliminate the leaps of faith endemic in the original. That said, I do not have a version of the thing that I can redistribute to you (since it wasn't mine to begin with).
>
> Perhaps you can get someone from the JSC or ALA Publishing to either send you the draft or give me permission to do that?
>
> Regards,
> Diane
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> On 2/21/10 10:15 PM, BEER,Chris wrote:
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>> Good afternoon all
>> I'm a new sign up to these lists, so first things first - hello!
>> By way of background, I work in Web Publishing in the Australian
>> Public Sector. I have pretty much no library skills or background
>> (apart from working in the high school library back when I was still
>> at school - pre-Internet era ;) ) but I do have a keen interest in
>> metadata and all things related.
>> So here is my question - is there *anywhere* that I can locate a
>> fairly simple, plain english (or not-so-plain english) mapping of RDA
>> to Dublin Core elements. Most of what I've found is either beyond me
>> (without an extreme learning curve) or appears to be rather dated. I'm
>>
>
>> interested in straight one to one mappings, or mapping using a common
>> conversion such as RDF, RDFa, OWL etc, or in talking to someone who
>> has some experience in these matters. I have the need to provide both
>> RDA metadata and DC based metadata to web pages (and possibly, we
>> hope, not long after to the electronic documents linking from them)
>> and would obviously like to remove the need to display both sets of
>> metadata information where possible (being that less code is always
>> better, unless I'm approaching this completely the wrong way.) Should
>> you reply to me/the list, have pity and assume that you're talking to
>> a non-librarian/expert with a fair degree of self taught knowledge -
>> but possibly not the right knowledge. :) I may also need to pass this
>> information along to very non-technically minded people.
>> Thanks in advance for your time - I'm looking forward to learning a
>> lot from the lists and communities.
>> Cheers
>> *Chris Beer*
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